susannah has decided I'm going to the Senior Ball at my college next Saturday with my girlfriend. When I was talking to my mother about it, she asked whether I was going to get flowers, since when my brother went to the prom, they got a boutonnière for him and a wrist corsage for his date. I've never been to a formal dance before. What do I do?
I'm going to get flowers for my room, so it'll be pretty, and maybe flowers for my hair (and also for my girlfriend's hair if she wants them). I realized that I have an aversion to anything even possibly uncomfortable on my wrist, and I'm such a klutz that I'd probably manage to partially denude the corsage before the evening was out.
Asked 1 year ago
My choice: Don't get wrist corsages, that's just dorky OR Just get some flowers for your hair OR Buy flowers to have in your room instead.
- jtu
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Wrist corsages seem to just get in the way. Get some for your room -- they'll last longer and you'll actually be able to see them (as opposed to if they're in your hair).
- erin
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Flowers are nice, but I wouldn't go for the corsage -- it reminds me too much of high school. I've not been to a college with a prom, but I doubt many people will have corsages. Flowers in your hair add that little bit of cuteness without the same connotations.
- ntn
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The hair flowers are nice, and don't hurt your wrists eventually.
Get wrist corsages (and flowers for your hair).
- photon
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Flowers are cute, romantic, sweet, and just wonderful. Do it :)
- kyrandil
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i think it's sweet, but not important. it made me happy when i went to my hs prom.
- sklarj
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Wrist corsages are so not dorky. As one who wrote my high school prom style guide allow me to note that the key is to not go cheap on the wrist corsage. If you go to a good florist and describe what your date is wearing, her coloration, etc. you should get a wonderful matching corsage.
- lal
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More flowers are better! I remember the corsages I got for both proms I went to in high school and it was just really nice to have them, even though they were decadent.
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- madcaptenor
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Flowers are silly.
- glasser
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Go to the flower shop and find whatever will excite you the most to see on each other.
- holyschist
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I think wrist corsages might get in the way, but I don't know. Flowers are nice, if you both like flowers. But I don't think they're mandatory (personally, I like the sentiment behind flowers but would rather people didn't give them to me; I give F. roses periodically because he dries them and hangs them on his wall).
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