Formal Dance Traditions

10Oct07

It has come to my attention that people have no idea what to do when it comes to Homecoming traditions. Examples of having no idea are “who pays?” “Do we HAVE to match?” or “WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BOUQUET HE’S FUCKING SUPPOSED TO BRING ME GODDAMN IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!”

So here I am to clarify all your homecoming tradition woes. yayme.

PAYING-
Generally, IMO, the one who asks should pay. Its not fair to make guys pay for EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME, because honestly, no teenager has that much money to spare. Homecoming at my school is around 60 dollars a person and limo is 50-80 a person, so thats already 300 dollars. THUS, you ask, you pay. If you’re a girl who asked a guy to homecoming just to get a free ticket… Go fuck yourself, slut.

The Structure:
Generally, guys pay for BOTH PEOPLE’s TICKETS, TRANSPORTATION, and CORSAGE. Girls pay for Dinner, Pictures, and Boutonnières. Theres several variations of this, including the guy paying for everything, or going dutch, but this is the GENERAL structure.

NOTE:
you should NEVER EVER EVER EVER let a guy pay for your dress or your makeup or your hair. Those things are YOUR ISSUES, and you should NOT expect a guy to have to take care of that. I mean, most girls do their hair and makeup at home, but booking a salon just because the guy is paying? Man, thats low.

Going Dutch-
I don’t see how anyone can not know what going dutch means. So, yayme, I shall define it. It means splitting the costs in half. What you consume is yours to pay for (including ticket, limo, dinner, pictures, and corsage/boutonnière). This is generally what ends up happening if two people are going as friends, as casual dates, if one person cannot manage to come up with all the money on their own, or if the girl asks.

ETIQUETTE ABOUT PAYING-
Discuss it with your date BEFORE you queue up to buy tickets. You don’t want ANY misconceptions, trust me. Getting into line and then realizing that you expected him to pay but he expected you to pay so neither of you brought money…. would be quite an awkward situation. If the guy offers to pay for EVERYTHING, girls, please do protest. Half the time, the guys don’t mean it, and they’re just offering out of generosity/confusion about who’s actually supposed to pay for what. So decline their offer and say you’ll pay for dinner and pictures, at the VERY LEAST. If they insist, however, then you’re free to nod courteously and accept.

Matching-

No, you dont HAVE to match. You dont HAVE to go in your Cinderella ball gown, either. Most people choose to match (as in girl buys dress, tells guy what color dress is, guy buys/rents matching tie.) If it’s out of your budget to buy a new tie for every dance, then don’t match. Who cares? The point of HC is for YOU to have a good time, not for you and your date to be the cuddly-wuddly Oompa Loompa twins.

HC Night Traditions-
Most people go to dinner with their limo group (if they are going to HC in a limo group at all) before they head to the dance. I’ve done Italian the two years I went, and its a LOT of fun. If you’re driving to HC, then pick up your date an hour early and grab a bite at a sit down restaurant around 7 PM. Trust me, you have no obligations to give her a diamond ring on the day of the dance. You’re not even obligated to buy her flowers (so stop asking, girls), although flowers, in the eyes of most girls, would be nice.

Kthats it for now, until i think of something else i need to add.

Cheers!

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