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writes:How would you go about asking your best friend and the girl of your dreams to senior prom? We're still a few months away from it, but I've been thinking about this since last Halloween. I like her a lot and I'm thinking she likes me, too. I guess I just a bit of a nudge. Thanks to anyone who can help. :)
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reader, daletom +, writes (2 January 2009):
Yes, it's a little early but it doesn't hurt to plan ahead. I'd hold off asking about the prom specifically until a month or two before the event - she'll need a month or so to find a dress, make her hair appointment, etc. Of course, you can start with some less stressful, less formal dates before asking her to the prom.
I was VERY impressed by the way a certain young man asked my daughter for a first date when they were in High School. (I think it was a Valentine's "Dressy Dance", not the Prom, but the idea is probably good for either event.)
He first contacted my wife and I. We made arrangements to let him know when our daughter would be gone for a few hours. He showed up with a couple of buddies, and they started blowing up a bunch of cheap dime-store balloons. At least 100 - maybe 200. They covered every horizontal surface of her bedroom with balloons! (Yeah, she was a bit of a slob about housekeeping in her bedroom but my wife & I decided to risk letting that secret out - but we nagged her into making her bed on the day this was going to happen.) Our daughter kept pet rabbits, so on the middle of her bed they placed a stuffed toy rabbit with a card pinned to it, actually asking her to the event.
(As I recall she retaliated by filling the guy's car with the balloons - but she got a little too creative with where she hid her written response, and he had to call and ask her where to find it.)
And no, my daughter's relationship with that guy never came to much. He was a good guy, and probably a good match for her, but they dated for only 6 - 8 weeks and broke up. In the summer after her junior year of college she met her third boyfriend, they were married shortly after her college graduation, and they now have two daughters.
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reader, Hmmmmmm  +, writes (2 January 2009):
hi
i am presuming that your best friend does not have a date already? if not, maybe she is waiting for you to ask. be brave, buy her some flowers and just ask. if you don't you will always wonder what if. and to be honest, whats the worst she can say? no? if that is the case, surely its good that you are still friends and more important that she is part of your life
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