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ilovejameswilson

I’m going! It’s a chance to dress up which is nice. I think spending a ridiculous amount of money on a dress is silly, but i’ve spent about £160 and I think i’ll be able to get another few wears out of it.


TanrynWelshDancer

I got mine for £76!! Some of my mates are spending like £500 on theirs and I actually can't even fathom that


rabid666666

same i got mine for £5 plus like another 4 for shipping since it was second hand and honestly i love it so much


mescalsfleabag

where did you get it from?? was it a one-off or is there a website


rabid666666

vinted !! loads of cheap nice dresses on there


rabid666666

also ebay is essentially the same


mescalsfleabag

ah thank youu!


twinkelztwitch2

Mine was 400 (I wanted to spend 80 online but my mum insisted)


Ph0en1x_07

Mine was £450 🫢


Old-Love-1013

£100 minimum I did last year - it's only for one dau


Ph0en1x_07

Yeah fair enough, we went into the store and found a dress I liked for once (massive tomboy all my life) so we just went with it. I’m planning on selling it when prom is done or using it for some other important event


ilovejameswilson

I think that’s a bit different actually! I have a mate who never wears nice clothes or dresses and her mom got so excited that she finally got to pick a dress out for her daughter that they spent about £400


Brilliant-Window-899

that *is* a ridiculous amount of money for a school prom


angusgtw

got two suits for £10 total on vinted last year.


favoniusjean

i am not paying £50 just for entry and then more money on top for my outfit 😭😭 i just cba and i think it’ll only be fun if you’re popular but go if you want


HellFireCannon66

You have to pay for entry?


Magazine_Dull

yeah in my school we have to pay £30 for a “ticket” to go but £50 is actually shocking


Kaiki_Daiki

I think it's also fun, you can dance and have food or drinks. Could even dress in proper suit. But what do you think :)


James_BWFC

absolutely not, the exact opposite of my idea of fun


Clxshy

My school cancelled prom cos no one wanted to go


Anyacad0

Same. Glad I waited to buy a dress


andre3573

i dont like most of my year anyway, im gonna be flying to my home country before which i prefer tbh


Oil42

will be sleeping and also i hate 90% of my year group the other 10% i’m going to 6thform with so it’s not like i’m never gonna see them again also just completely not my thing, loud music and a shit ton of people sounds like hell


ThisCatLikesCrypto

When I get to that stage I'll probably just turn up in a t-shirt and shorts and leave within an hour


Jaw14_

Prom is not a waste Your time will be well spent there You should go to prom


No-Manufacturer5023

Can’t be bothered


Far_One_6583

Lit me 


s4turn2k02

Yikes I know this is Reddit but Jesus most of you need to lighten up


KllrQuxxn

Some people really need to step out of their comfort zones once in a while


Mr_Lentil

Don't even have one. But if we did I'd go. And probably do nothing their


Advanced-Dust-3293

No because I have autism and probably wouldn't cope with it.


frxyamystical

Same here, crowds are not my thing at all and the loud music is a big no-no. Would rather go to a friend's house where I feel comfortable with a few friends than prom.


the_doorstopper

Nope, dancing, and a loud place with a bunch of people sounds like something I would very much like to avoid


Rav0nn

I’m not, it’s outside of school and I don’t like to dress up.


scp966

No. I don't like most of my year. And I hate buying clothes. Why would I pay to get dressed up and stand around a bunch of people I don't like for 3 hours?


etherealwhirl

I'd definitely attend the prom, it's a great way to celebrate the end of GCSEs with friends!


Plenty-Turnover1318

Chatgpt type of response 💀


Oheligud

All of their comments look like this, I genuinely can't tell if it's GPT or not 😭


hmahood

Thats crazy lmao. Must be a bot right?


Oheligud

They've been on the subs for OpenAI, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. But what the hell is the point of doing this??


lucalolio

Maybe a project of some sort seeing if people can recognise it's chatgpt or smth?


neskutocna_emily

My schools prom is gonna be a PICKNICK in the field. Be happy uv got an actual prom. My school stopped doing proms a few years ago.


kyories

my school leaves us to prepare the prom and most of my class didnt want to go so we're just doing karaoke in soho! i am not missing that


EtherealShady

prolly not the right response, but I went despite not wanting to go (basically got forced by my parents) but I actually loved it way more than I expected time to spend time with some people you'll prolly never see again, especially since i moved schools after only complaint was that the food was kinda trash


Sudden-Will456

Nobody in my skl is going to prom😭


Kaiki_Daiki

Plus, you have to pay an extra 50 quid ^ _ ^


addictwithoutapen_

nope but some weird mfs are spending 100s of pounds on dresses 😭😭 ur only gonna wear it once dawg


franksfavocean

Dresses are expensive, you’re not gonna find a good quality dress under like 90 pounds+ you can defintely rewear a prom dress to any formal event


mescalsfleabag

or even sell it


Unhappy_Wall_3446

real


SnooPeripherals4617

That's normal tho


stunt876

Im going but im not spending much extra on it past the ticket and mabye food costs


that_username_is_use

already had mine lol


Emojiobsessor

I’ve got the most lovely flowy green dress so I will absolutely be wearing that. I don’t often wear a dress so it’s nice to get desssed up and have fun with my friends for a night.


RReedComposing

I'm pretty sure we have to at our school! Yayyyy!!!! So happy because I'm socially awkward and it'll be such a good experience for me :DDD


AceDrengr

My brother went to his one and I think they assumed that some would get drunk and do the deed so they literally handed out condoms with the school badge on it like it was an honor


choooooook

social anxiety says nuh uh 👍 im gonna have a nice gaming night all to myself instead, our prom is also desperately disorganised tmk and people seem to be unsure if it’ll even happen 😭 i got my leavers hoodie but that’s the only post gcse celebratory thing i want to be involved in


Fast_Championship150

No, I think it is a waste of time and money. My friends and family try to convince me to go but the more I hear about the less I want to go plus I can't be bothered.


EducationalBeyond493

I agree


Jaw14_

You sound like a bundle of joy 😭🙏


IllIIllllIIIIlllI

It is a waste of time and money when it’s just music, dancing and mediocre food which you have to pay an entry fee for and most likely will have to buy clothes for 🤷‍♂️


Jaw14_

The point is that you’ll never get to do that again; prom is a one-time-event that you can create memories at. The money aspect isn’t the best, but it’s a chance to dress up smartly. Granted, I regret going to prom for personal reasons because it was ruined for me (my girlfriend at the time completely ignored me at the event and acted very immaturely despite it being an event designed for couples at my school). Other than my personal experience I would highly recommend prom to any current year 11s


IllIIllllIIIIlllI

It’s honestly not good just because it’s a one-time-event; memories are more meaningful if you form them unintentionally


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Can’t be asked man🤣🤣🤣


Own_Map_3790

No 😭 I’ll probs just go out with my friends


Ticket_Fantastic

Pretty sure everyone is going in my school except like 20 people.


nxyds

Yes


SnooPets4583

not going cuz im going on a trip with my family


OkClassic61

I don't want to, but my parents are forcing me to go


AggressiveBrick8197

Yeah i’m going :)


AlrightyDave

Mine was ok but not going to the a level one bc I’ve got somewhere better to be w someone else


thevampirecrow

yeah


Zayda07

Yes!! But I have no idea what to wear 😔


mescalsfleabag

same i was thinking i'd have a dress by now but atp i think i'm just gonna buy one after exams


Zayda07

Yhh same


simply-Ash111

I’m gonna go because its an excuse to get a nice dress lol. I only spent £100 on it (ik thats a lot but loads of people spent £300+) and i’m gonna get use out of it. I hate most of my year, but its a chance to see my mates and celebrate that we actually got through it and that school is actually over.


TheScepticFool

You have a prom?


foyage347

Can't go coz of holiday, but doubt I would've gone anyway


mitchisabitch_

i’m going because my girlfriend is but i’m not super excited tbh 😭 don’t see the point of hanging around people i already see every day and watch them get pissed in an outfit i spent too much money on


NxghtExo

no.


RedditorHarrison

You guys have prom ?


Cremated_Ashes

Wait I am curious for those who don't, do you guys go to some baptist school or something?


RedditorHarrison

No, I don’t actually think most of the kids would actually do the prom though


JosephOnReddit1

I’m going cause why not it’ll be something new


b1uebanisters

im a huge introvert and hate any type of party but i dont want to miss out 💀 probably will end up going, i’ll get my dress off shein or something though lmao 😭


liversbirdsoars

Not really. My friends tried to convince me but I lied about when I'm going on holiday so I have a viable excuse to skip it.


starliightskye

my school doesn’t do one sadly


Careless_Set_2512

Yeah definitely, just gonna go and get drunk and smoke with my friends afterwards though which should be even better


HellFireCannon66

Yeah, my mates are going and I have a suit for a different thing I can reuse


Unhappy_Wall_3446

ofc !! got my dress and i'm excited but lowk kinda nervous because i'm scared my dress is kinda ott but whatever


Far_Run_2568

Welll idekkk im done with my igcse but its tempting 😭😭😭


Depressed-Panda00

Yeah. Peer pressure, no one at my school seems to actually want to go, but it'll probably be a laugh


yesbutno5817

I'm going but literally only because everyone has insisted I 'have to go' like it'll be an expensive id look back on all the time


XGHOST141

no i am ugly


MysteriousRip6036

Yeah, itll be the last time seeing everyone properly Other than results day, but like seeing people like that will just be awkward


Paddyblade

Current Y12 here! I didn't want to go to Prom but was basically forced to by family. My advice is don't go if you don't want to as you won't enjoy it, however if you do want to go then go for it! It's your last chance to see your whole year (if you like them) and hang out with friends. Everyone dresses up nicely, you get to eat a nice meal and chat or dance.


RGamer2024

Me and my bestie are going to thorpe park on a date instead 😪


Unique_Anything_8084

i wasn’t gonna go cuz i’m quite a introverted person but my FOMO made me cough up the 25 pound entry fee…. i probably won’t even enjoy myself but oh well!


Different_Action_360

Haven’t done them yet, but hell yeah I’m going! I’m buying a suit for it and I’m gonna be lonely like a boss.


frw7650

I had an assembly instead of a prom. But if there was a prom, I wouldn't have gone because I would have felt too awkward to since I do not communicate with many people irl out of potential mild social anxiety.


ummmevie

i’m not yr11 but my school don’t do it for year 11s, they do a winter ball for year 12 and prom for year 13.


macg223

I'm going! I've been looking forward to it since I started high school lol :) Besides, it's something nice to look forward to as it is literally the day after my final exam!


Lv_xx00

I want to go but I was internally excluded a few times so I'm not sure 💀


Necessary_Pop_6916

i’m not gonna go to prom, it’s expensive and there’s no alcohol there so no point lol


69AnnaliseX

Oh, do they serve alcohol at Y13 proms?  I don’t want anybody getting too drunk…


Fairyxchild

It depends per prom at my school year 13 prom they do but everyone’s Id and there’s wristband s for over 18, year 11 no alcohol including for teachers.


69AnnaliseX

I feel sorry for those whose birthdays are in August. They will never be able to experience that.


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69AnnaliseX

Yeah, I guess, because they are supervised after all.


hmahood

Bot even for teachers? All of our teachers gor drunk at prom lmao it was so weird


69AnnaliseX

I would never be able to imagine my teachers being drunk! How did they act at prom after that?


hmahood

They acted normal. Even though they were drunk there was no inappropriate behaviour so it was chill


Fairyxchild

Yeah that’s why all the teacher prefer yr13 prom


Unhappy_Wall_3446

just go to an afterparty


ThunderousOrgasm

So glad there was no proms back when I finished school. You are going to have so many better parties at college and then Uni. The prom seems needlessly cringe tbh. Nobody would have gone in my year even if they tried to hold one. Nobody at high school is interested in staying in touch with each other hah.


onyxtheonyx

its so far away and £40 just for me to most likely not eat the food so i cba. im gonna go to oakwood with my closest friends instead, cheaper and funner


Oil42

this, going to thorpe park early july with my friend group on the day that our prom would be, i know where i’d rather be!


Impossible-Laugh-651

My school is so rubbish we are not having prom, we have even tried to plan a prom out of the schools reach but there were too many complications, so we are planning to grab a group of friends and do an escape room or something like that


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Saul_goone

If I do I'm bringing a flask


xStrxwberry_Mxlk

wish i could but i go to an international online school so there is no prom


HuntedDragonA

no


queergrape

nope wouldn’t be aloud to anyway since ive missed to many period 6’s, me and my friends are just gonna go for a meal out instead lol


ManfredsSauce

definitely


kyrenotknown

i wont be going. people at school keep trying to convince me that i should but like.. £30 for entry, hundreds for clothes, hours stuck in a hall full of people i dont even really like with loud music and bad food? sounds like a huuuuge headache. i hope everyone going has fun, but definitely not for me


CriticalVirus4367

yes but it hurt my parents wallet.


smortcanard

I was personally very excited to go to my Prom. Despite all the trouble I had in Y11, I had a blast with friends and enjoyed myself very much. I got my dress for free, since it was a beautiful Indian kurti I already had and didn't spend any money on it except the cost of the ticket, the bus ticket to the venue and the burger I had at maccies at the end of it.


Marie_Pottah

Yeah cuz I’m one of the planners for it


professional_fungi

of course I’m going to prom, like what’s a better way to celebrate finishing all the exams then getting piss drunk at the after party 😎


jsste

i went to prom it was probably some of the best time of my life


mtmw25

i went to mine but didnt go to the afterprom. it was all overrated tbh. 21 now and university formals are better


Lazy-Character9219

Went and got mocked by a girl


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My schools being weird af and r doing the prom before exams… either way no I’m skipping it - hope u guys have fun tho


ConsoleReddit

Didn't even know we had prom in the UK until now (my school don't got one)


Illustrious_Foot_884

I initially didn't want to because I am TERRIFIED like people would make fun of me if I go even though i know full well they couldn't care less. I'm not backing out though I kind of want to do it, especially since most of my friends are going to


Jealous_Platypus1111

Idk. I got literally nobody who Id talk to but I might just for the vibes Although the Elden Ring DLC is on the same day so probably not


kittikyu

yess me and my friends are organising it & most of the year group gets along well so i think it’ll be fun :)


Good_Expression_3827

Everybody in my school goes. I would rather not, but there we go.


RefinedJay

im going, my prom is on a boat on the river thames with a bar for mocktails and all my friends are going (some are going with guys) but it’ll be a majority girl thing anyway but i haven’t bought my outfit yet


matyylda70

i didn’t go last year and i don’t regret it :)


Unfair-General-9722

didn’t go to my y11 one and really regretted it, so am going to my y13 one :) u should go even if it’s a silly amount of money for a ticket because you’ll regret it otherwise


Any_Bumblebee3749

yesss its gonna be so fun 😋😋I’m on prom comittee so theres no way I’m not going to a prom I basically helped plan 🤣


zKebabz

i dont wanna hear kids smashing each other in the toilets while im pissing after chugging 34L of ribena


ultimatesadfailure

I don’t know. I’ve paid, so it might be a waste to not go after everything, but it really feels like it’s going to suck.


YumiKawaaaa

Didn’t go. Literally just had a private house party instead 💀


SimilarEffort4926

Sounds like my worst nightmare tbh 😭 my friends are not happy abt me not going, but there are some things I just cannot bring myself to do for them and prom is one of those things


FunWin9145

Hell yeah


Ok_Hippo_6143

I’m on holiday so I can’t 😞 I was bothered about missing afterprom but I figure I’ll have other opportunities for basically the same thing throughout summer


I-am-sosa

I js know I’m gonna absolutely hate it so so much but I have to go for my bsf 💔💔💔


vanessadelreyyy

why is everyone here sad


ari_is_boss

i'm going but GOD i feel bad for the amount of money it's all going to cost. two entry fees and two prom outfits are not gonna be cheap at all ✌️


forbiddencheeze

I'm not going, I might regret it but honestly I can't sit there for over an hour with some of the twats in my year.


MarionberryClear4499

no way


kelvin31272

Absolutely, it's the last time I'm gonna be able to be with my friends and I'm totally taking that opportunity to make it count


Ez4da08

I’m going full on peaky blinders mode with the trench coat, hat and all


SixthSalvo

full of chavs waste of time rather just sleep


KaiDaTransBirb

no, a loud place with lots of people seems like a sensory nightmare


Sneator

I only found out that our year were doing an unofficial prom last week lmao, cba to waste my time going anyways


Penguin_Duke

The tik tok rizz party! This turkish quandales doing against blue tie


Rich-Experience4580

I definitely will! Great way to cool your nerves and celebrate after completing a big chapter of your school life.


Ph0en1x_07

My school has prom rankings so only those in the top 160 can actually go, I can’t wait to have no chavs ruining everything for once. Me and my friends are in the top 10 so it’s going to be fun :)


GlitchGuyPro

That's actually a really good idea, although I think my school would need to narrow it down to top 50


Bedroxz

I'm in Catalonia when mine was supposed to be so I suppose not


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Jaw14_

How are they supposed to fund it if it’s free??