Heads up! Prom is coming up on April 18th, and preparations are coming even quicker, so that prom can be special for every boy and girl.  

Junior Senate starts thinking of ideas for prom in September and when they get to January is when they put the ideas on paper, vote on a theme, and start planning decorations, and during the pep rally last week it was announced that the theme is The Scarlet Soirée.  

“Once a theme has been decided, we send our ideas down to PnP and they come porous a design strictly by going of our thoughts and ideas,” Sponsor Susan Ludwig said. 

To get more information out about prom Ludwig and her co-sponsor Andrea Burton have has posters hung up around the building and will start to major announcements on the daily morning announcements when it gets closer to the date, and tickets need to start being sold. These two absolutely love the process it takes to plan prom. 

“I love, love planning prom! It’s one of my favorite things to do each year. Years ago, I was the assistant Senior Senate sponsor and helped the now retired lead sponsor plan many things including prom. I think I have some proms total of 10 times,” Co-sponsor Burton said.  

When it comes to the actual set up of the venue, the Junior Senate kids don’t have to help with that because Ludwig and Burton want them to have time for themselves the day and not have to spend it setting up. Ludwig and Burton go down to Creighton several hours before prom to set the centerpieces, photo-booth backdrop, check on the DJ, check and make sure they have all the things needed in place so that the students have a fun filled night. With this process, they still need to be mindful of how they decorate at chosen venues. 

“Some places we have held prom are very forbidding as to what we can and can’t use for decorations and how extravagant or minimal they can be we need to be very respectful of their business and spaces,” Co-sponsor Burton said.  

A few ideas about setup were shut down for precautionary reasons and not simply because they weren’t good for the theme of prom. With a fancy ball decorated with red and black roses, cute decorative wine glasses could have made it feel even more like a Soirée. 

“My idea to have cute decorative wine glasses got shut down because they said that it promotes underage drinking,” Junior Senate member, Dariah Johnson said. 

The Junior senate members don’t have too much to sweat about because the planning stuff is ending, and they can find more time for themselves. The members clearly have their own ideas of how to set it should be since they don’t get to decorate it personally. They just have an idea of how it should look. 

“Decorations will be set up in a strategic out of the way places so people can just enjoy dancing, so I’m picturing having decorations in the corners, and just making sure the dance floor is open,” Junior Senate member, Audree Dalton said.  

A Junior Senate member seemed complicit about how things were with the prom theme, but things could’ve made more progress. 

“I would probably change the time we started planning or making more progress because I don’t feel as though we are fully prepared for prom being next week,” Junior Senate member, Thalia Ruiz said. “I feel like we did a pretty good a job with choosing the theme and that sort of thing.”