LoT Prom (AKA: Sohrshah's 30th Birthday Party!)

[Lance]

With Sohrshah's 30th Birthday approaching rapidly and things getting stablized in our life, we've decided to go ahead with her birthday party/prom!

On June 19th we'll be holding a prom style party, with music, food and drinks, dancing, and so on. So wear your prom style clothing (era of graduation fashion for bonus points) and dance on down for a good time.

We are basically just starting to get the party together, so we don't have a location yet, but we thought it was a good idea to let everyone know when so they could mark it on their calendars.

We could also use all the help we can get at this point, if anyone is willing to lend a hand. We need to find a location that is relatively inexpensive, but big enough for a prom style party. We can use any donations of party related items, food, advice, etc... and of course we can use help setting everything up the day of.

When we have a location and a time, I'll post it in this thread.

Feel free to PM if you'd like.

Thanks and hope to see you all there!

[lashbear]

Will there be Skype access ?

[DisneyDaniel]

What areas, counties or cities are you considering for the party location?

[CoasterMatt]

I wore a hospital gown and IV tubes for my prom.

[Kevy Baby]

What areas, counties or cities are you considering for the party location?I believe it will be in the United States

[wolfy999]

I didn't go to any of my proms when I was young....don't think I'll start now. But sounds like it would be fun for the two of you and all the other LoTers!

[Kevy Baby]

I knew it was around somewhere. Not my prom, but my friend Nori's prom (she is the one who's house burned down twice):

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'll have to see what I can dig up. I graduated in 1988, which is an era I don't know that I'm capable of recreating.

Maybe I'll wear a tux. That might be fun. :)

[Kevy Baby]

Maybe I'll wear a tux. That might be fun. :) Chicks in tuxes are hawt!

[Morrigoon]

Mine wasn't "in" fashion even in my era. Girls had already started wearing those nightgowns masquerading as formalwear that, surprisingly, are still in style today. Saw a prom album my nephew was tagged in on FB, and other than color, the girls appeared to be wearing almost the same gown. Boooooring. Now, the 80's.... those were some freaking prom gowns!

While I am still in posession of the gown below, I'm about 3 sizes too big for it.... alas.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/morrigoon/LoT%20images/P1100514.jpg

Maybe I'll wear it anyway, unzipped, and pinned to unattractive undergarments :P

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'll have to see if I can find my prom pictures.

Nice dress, Goonie!

[Morrigoon]

Thanks! I brought the dressmaker a couple historical costume books and showed her element I liked from two different dresses and that was the happy result.

[Sohrshah]

Lol! Kevy, You look totally normal, but your date is well... dated to the height of 80s fashion, netted "hat" and all!

I concur, girls in tuxes are HAWT.

BTW, thank you Lance for starting this thread. We've been really having a time of it finding a location. It doesn't have to be fancy- just enough room for some balloons, a punch bowl, pot luck finger foods, crazy music an most especially some fun!

[innerSpaceman]

Goonie, since you were in that photo you would know, and can now tell us ... under that black velvet cape, was Cherney wearing the classic familly black velvet and lace Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit??

[Morrigoon]

ROFL. No, he was wearing a standard tux. I made the cape and talked him into wearing it (damn thing fell apart & had to be safety pinned too >:| )

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Goonie, since you were in that photo you would know, and can now tell us ... under that black velvet cape, was Cherney wearing the classic familly black velvet and lace Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit??BWAHAHAHAHA!!! He'll never live that down.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

:)

[innerSpaceman]

Why do I feel compelled to pen a romance novel?

[DisneyDaniel]

Awww ... what cute pictures of the Happy Haunts, Kevy, M & C. Thanks for sharing the photos, everyone. :)

[Sohrshah]

Will there be Skype access ?

If at all possible!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'll be the one to say it...

I hesitated to open this thread as I first read the title as "LoT Porn".

Which led me to believe it was either filled with gratuitous photos of bacon or.............*shudder*

[Disneyphile]

Which led me to believe it was either filled with gratuitous photos of bacon or.......*Sausage? :evil:

[LSPoorEeyorick]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/powerswaterworks/1996prom_595.jpg

[Disneyphile]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/Disneyphile/Funny/Prom.jpg

(Date not shown to respect privacy.)

Metallic emerald lame. Gotta love the early 90's!

Even worse - I used to think I was fat. :rolleyes:

[Sohrshah]

I'll be the one to say it...

I hesitated to open this thread as I first read the title as "LoT Porn".

Which led me to believe it was either filled with gratuitous photos of bacon or.............*shudder*

...Kevy?

*ducks and runs*

[Sohrshah]

LS- what a lovely dress!
D'phile - OMG, you were so not fat, and wow that dress is teh awesome! If I can find my prom pictures, I'll post one. I also thought I was fat, and was wearing a sheathy little black number with a leg slit to there and 4 inch heels.

CD - I love that dress! You look the same!
GD - It's like you, only baby face you with a little trainer beard! :P

[alphabassettgrrl]

I love all the pictures!


CD- I love the dress, too!
LS- Yours, too! Gorgeous!
GD- You do look a lot the same!
DP- You look great!

My first prom dress was pink. Retroactively, that's hilarious. And it had white lace. I'll see if I can find a picture.

[Capt Jack]

these pics make me (kinda) sad I was banned from all my proms

but only kinda. :evil:

[SzczerbiakManiac]

For my prom, I wore a black tux with a gold lamé bow tie & cummerbund as an allusion to the gold lamé shorts I wore as Rocky (I played the title character back in those days). Per my request, my date wore a black dress with gold lamé accents to match me.

Yeah, I was gay back then too.

(Though my date was a female friend from work because I wasn't openly mo.)

[Kevy Baby]

Somewhere, I have another prom pic (I went to four) where I was wearing an all-white tux (with tails) and pink accoutrement: cummerbund, bow-tie and "scarf" (it was a cheap-crappy pseudo silk POC). Gotta find one of those pix and scan.

I think Susan has that pic framed and hanging in our hallway (and she isn't in it - I never went to a prom with Susan).

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I think everyone has to have a hickey to go to this prom!

[Sohrshah]

Now you'll have your chance Kevy!

Hey... every prom has colors, often voted on and chosen by the same people who are on Yearbook staffs, and often end up being horrendous. since we all write here...

What should the LoT prom colors be?

[CoasterMatt]

black and blue

[CoasterMatt]

Hopefully the prom won't go like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYxp_wJYgSk)...

[Morrigoon]

So, should I show up with the chocolate fountain?

[blueerica]

Oy, since I can't be there in-person, can I find the dress I would wear?

Because, I really wanna... like... really.

[innerSpaceman]

I never went to my real prom. I'm looking forward to this, but how to find a tux ... circa 1977??? :eek:

[Morrigoon]

I never went to my real prom. I'm looking forward to this, but how to find a tux ... circa 1977??? :eek:

Well, if you don't, you have tons of other awesome jackets you could don :)

[wolfy999]

I never went to my real prom. I'm looking forward to this, but how to find a tux ... circa 1977??? :eek:

OMG...same graduating year...we'd make a fine couple!

[alphabassettgrrl]

I vote for purple and maybe red. :)

[ozron]

Another from the Class of '77 here. (Yes, we're the generation that made superstars of the BeeGees. Sorry)

Good luck locating that powder blue tux and big ruffly shirt.

[€uroMeinke]

My Prom Photo:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_TkzYib9T4ZU/SgEg1ti3irI/AAAAAAAAFHs/EBHTfjgIJrg/1980%20-%20August%20-%20Prom%2001%20Chris%20%26%20Valerie.jpg

And my Grad Night at Disneyland Photo:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_TkzYib9T4ZU/SgEi6lCeWVI/AAAAAAAAFIc/GkTq5M7YjnE/s640/Disneyland%20Grad%20Night%201980.jpg

[Morrigoon]

Oh PLEASE wear that! (grad night)

[€uroMeinke]

Be careful what you ask for...

[Morrigoon]

But I believe there's the little matter of a helmet?

[lashbear]

my Grad Night at Disneyland Photo:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_TkzYib9T4ZU/SgEi6lCeWVI/AAAAAAAAFIc/GkTq5M7YjnE/s640/Disneyland%20Grad%20Night%201980.jpg

That reminds me,

Have you had a chance to try out your new Camel Toe Bak yet?

[innerSpaceman]

Your Prom photo is a red X, so scanning quickly I took your Grad Nite photo as your prom foto ... and figured there was just something left out of that early experimentalist story you once told.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

And my Grad Night at Disneyland Photo:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_TkzYib9T4ZU/SgEi6lCeWVI/AAAAAAAAFIc/GkTq5M7YjnE/s640/Disneyland%20Grad%20Night%201980.jpgMatching shiny pants. :D What's with Boss Radio's arrows?

Damnit, where's my time machine? I would love to meet these troublemakers.

[Sohrshah]

Wow, the pants. Awesomeness!

[Sohrshah]

So, should I show up with the chocolate fountain?

There's a first time for everything!

[Chernabog]

Morrigoon you have a link somewhere to our prom photo right?

[mousepod]

Matching shiny pants. :D What's with Boss Radio's arrows?


I wasn't on the west coast at the time, but I'd bet he was going for something like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoaslrpDNWA/SITS1MiqvrI/AAAAAAAAAd8/zUYEuE_E5SI/s400/thejam.jpg

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I gotta hand it to you €uroMeinke, it took balls to wear those pants!

A couple of them, as evidenced. :evil:

[Kevy Baby]

Morrigoon you have a link somewhere to our prom photo right?See post #10 in this thread

[Chernabog]

See post #10 in this thread

Oh duh... forgotted.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh duh... forgotted.
Forgot or repressed?

[Chernabog]

Forgot or repressed?

Haha... funny enough, BJ was also at that prom. Dressed in 17th century clothes, I recall.

[Morrigoon]

He looked awesome! Tell him to post the pic! (Straight out of Dangerous Liasons, lace cuffs and all!)

[Prudence]

Ugh. I don't know where my prom photos are. I was super tiny then and in a 40s-esque number my mom made. Dunno if I can make something appropriate in the time allotted. Might just show up as a 16th century Florentine.

[Sohrshah]

Hey no pressure to show up in exactly what you wore to your prom, or even what they wore that decade! :)

We still don't have a location yet, but I'm working on something- maybe at a private house, which means space may be limited. I will update with more information early next week.

So far the Colors suggessted are black and blue & red and purple. In honor of MattSz., how about black and...GOLD LAME? :P

or maybe blue spandex. Or Metallic emerald green Lame.

[Kevy Baby]

Lamé is lame









(Actually, I don't really have any feelings about lamé, I just want to say "lamé is lame)

[Prudence]

Hey no pressure to show up in exactly what you wore to your prom, or even what they wore that decade! :)


Do I have to confine myself to that century? :P

Actually, I have an idea that doesn't completely suck. We'll see if any sewing skills survived the law school hiatus. Mwahahaha!

[Chernabog]

Lamé is lame

I just don't understand, when in just seven days... I can make you a ma-a-a-a-aaaan!

[Sohrshah]

Lance and I don't have a ton of cash right now, so we needed to find a location which isn't going to cost us. My cousin Molly has graciously opened her home to the festivities, including her indoor/outdoor sound system, entire downstairs and backyard.

So, that said, we're on!

What: Gretchen's "Trienteniera" / PROM!
When: June 19th, 2009 @ 7:00 PM - whenever
Where: My cousin's house***

For the sake of privacy, I am creating an Evite for this event which contains more specific information, what we need, and my cousin's address. For privacy's sake, I don't want to put it out on a semi-public forum. I will add everyone to the evite who's emails I have - so if you'd like to come, PLEASE PM me or Lance and we will add you to the Evite right away.

Also, we want to create a sound track for the evening which includes music you all might remember from your prom- and any other fun suggestions you might have- so.... suggest away!

:cheers:

[Sohrshah]

Do I have to confine myself to that century? :P

Actually, I have an idea that doesn't completely suck. We'll see if any sewing skills survived the law school hiatus. Mwahahaha!

Nah. If you were a Renn/SCA geek in high school, go with it! :P

[Morrigoon]

I beg you: no music from my prom. 1995 SUCKED

[CoasterMatt]

I don't know what music they played at my prom, I was in the hospital.

[wolfy999]

1977.....good music back then, maybe I will finally go to a Prom.

[Sohrshah]

1977.....good music back then, maybe I will finally go to a Prom.

1977... year of Star Wars and... the Bee Gees?

[tracilicious]

Oh, I sooooo wanna come!!!! Why am I in Arizona????

[Sohrshah]

Ok, Evite sent - reminder - if you don't get an evite, it's because I need your email address. PM me with your e-mail and I'll add you to the list!

Lot's Prom colors are: 50s aqua and burgundy! (How random is THAT?!?!?)

Gold lame welcome. ;)

Goonie are you still bringing that chocolate fountain? :P

[alphabassettgrrl]

Aqua, burgundy, and gold lame... Might be fun!

Let me see if I can get the night off work.

[Lance]

Unfortunately, an unexpected situation has made it necessary to cancel this event. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

:( Hope you guys are ok.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'm sorry- hopefully it sorts itself out.