On a cold and windy Wednesday, Ben Bates braved the weather to
paint a proposal on High School Rock to his girlfriend, Kendra Morrison.
The 18-year-old Jackson Hole High School senior and a friend waited until nightfall before heading up to the rock, across from High School Road and the Highway 89 stoplight, armed with a can of white spray paint. The message was simple, and more of a statement than a question. It read “KM Prom” by an outline of a heart.
The next day he asked Morrison, also 18, to lunch and drove her by the landmark.“Someone changed the rock,” he said to Morrison. “Can you tell what it says?”But the sun was hitting the rock in a way that caused a blinding glare. “I couldn’t read it at all,” Morrison said. “I was really confused. I had no idea what he was doing — he was acting weird, and not like Ben.”They went to lunch and there he showed her a picture of his request on the stone.
“I was very surprised,” Morrison said.
She said yes, of course.
“It was really cute,” she said. “Now I see pictures of the cliche ways to ask like scavenger hunts and just writing on people’s cars. ...Fremont ralphlaurenhoody team sprint training. Everyone has been asking me, ‘Are you the KM on the rock?’ It was a very original idea.”While the “ask” didn’t necessarily come off as planned, it was the creative — and industrious — proposal that did her in.“I was trying to think of something I didn’t think anyone else had done,” Bates said.And their story is just one of many crazy ways kids won over their prospective dates this year for Saturday’s “Black Tie Affair” dance.In recent years, proposals for the prom have been exceedingly inventive.
“People go all out,” Morrison said. “It’s fun to watch.”
Students have sung for their dates,Fremont ralphlaurenhoody team sprint training. brought them candy, decorated their lockers, cars or rooms or made them search the valley high and low to find the proposal.“It is definitely such a fun tradition that has started at the high school,” teacher and student council advisor Andrea Overly said.Overly, who graduated from Jackson Hole High School in 2001, said that when she was in school prom invitations were “not that big of a deal.”But between when she left and then came back to teach in 2007, kids became extremely creative in their prom invites.Compare Supra shoes price and read chiffonbridesmaiddress reviews before you buy.And it doesn’t stop at prom.
For winter ball, which is a Sadie Hawkins-style affair where girls ask guys, “the girls show just as much creativity and enthusiasm in asking their dates in fun and entertaining ways,” Overly said.
Senior Stephanie Murphy said the dance invitations make the occasion even more exciting.“It kind of takes the awkwardness out of it if you do it in a fun way,” she said.Her prom date, Ben Fairbanks, played on her love of Cheez-Its by individually gluing the crackers on to a poster to form the words “I know this is cheesy but will you go to prom with me?”
He got School Resource Officer Matt Carr to pull Murphy, 17, out of calculus class in order to present the poster, she said.“I didn’t know who it was going to be but I knew I was going to be asked to prom,” she said. “Last year ... I got asked a couple times just normal but I chose to go with my friends. ... He asked me in a creative way and I thought it would be fun to go with a date as a senior. It would be weird to not go with a date at least once.”
But with a date comes ordering the prerequisite flowers. Murphy made sure to get a boutonniere for Fairbanks to match her high-low hemline tangerine gown.“I like that it’s more formal than the other dances and it’s fun to dress up,A royaloak is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony.” she said.“It’s fun to go with your friends and have a good time.”Will Wagner, a senior at Jackson Hole High School, decided to use a little imagination to romance his date, Chandler Billingham, to prom.
“I bought 28 roses, one for each hour of the [school] day,” he said. “One for first hour, two for second, three for third and so on.”Along with the roses, at each of her classes there was a word. Will. You. Go. To. Prom. With.At her last class, Wagner was waiting for her.Looking for a agatebeads?“I gave her the flowers and said ‘me!’” he said. “She was really happy, and ran and hugged me.”
Senior and student council member CJ Hoeft also got into his “ask.”He made a collage with pictures of him and his date, Paige Johnston, as a way to ask her to the dance.Creating a special invitation to prom “makes asking your date more fun,” he said.
Last year Hoeft led his date on a scavenger hunt around town.“It’s more flashy and shows that you really care when you put in more effort,” he said.For Hoeft and Wagner, going the extra mile was worth it.“It has become the social norm in Jackson to ask in an original way,” Wagner said. “If you don’t, it looks kind of lame, like you didn’t put effort into it.”Senior and student council president Nina Berlin’s boyfriend, junior Carson Meyer, waited until almost the last minute to ask her — the Monday before the dance. But his charming offer made up for his tardiness.
“He told me to meet him at his car,” she said. “I got to his car and he was standing there with a bouquet of flowers.”Along with red roses, he had drilled holes in three tennis balls and written “Prom?” on them.It was really cute, she said.“Making a big show of it impresses the girls or the boy,” Berlin said. “It sets the bar for a good time. There are not a lot of other creative outlets for kids who want to do something sweet for someone they want to ask.”
For the seniors, the prom is the “last hurrah” before graduation in June. It’s exciting and bittersweet at the same time, she said.
“It’s fun to be around everyone one more time versus just being in a classroom with 20 kids that you know,” Berlin said. “It’s 200 kids that you know.”The senior class has become one big family.
“Everyone is happy for each other and excited everyone else has ambition and is going somewhere that they like,” she said.
The 18-year-old Jackson Hole High School senior and a friend waited until nightfall before heading up to the rock, across from High School Road and the Highway 89 stoplight, armed with a can of white spray paint. The message was simple, and more of a statement than a question. It read “KM Prom” by an outline of a heart.
The next day he asked Morrison, also 18, to lunch and drove her by the landmark.“Someone changed the rock,” he said to Morrison. “Can you tell what it says?”But the sun was hitting the rock in a way that caused a blinding glare. “I couldn’t read it at all,” Morrison said. “I was really confused. I had no idea what he was doing — he was acting weird, and not like Ben.”They went to lunch and there he showed her a picture of his request on the stone.
“I was very surprised,” Morrison said.
She said yes, of course.
“It was really cute,” she said. “Now I see pictures of the cliche ways to ask like scavenger hunts and just writing on people’s cars. ...Fremont ralphlaurenhoody team sprint training. Everyone has been asking me, ‘Are you the KM on the rock?’ It was a very original idea.”While the “ask” didn’t necessarily come off as planned, it was the creative — and industrious — proposal that did her in.“I was trying to think of something I didn’t think anyone else had done,” Bates said.And their story is just one of many crazy ways kids won over their prospective dates this year for Saturday’s “Black Tie Affair” dance.In recent years, proposals for the prom have been exceedingly inventive.
“People go all out,” Morrison said. “It’s fun to watch.”
Students have sung for their dates,Fremont ralphlaurenhoody team sprint training. brought them candy, decorated their lockers, cars or rooms or made them search the valley high and low to find the proposal.“It is definitely such a fun tradition that has started at the high school,” teacher and student council advisor Andrea Overly said.Overly, who graduated from Jackson Hole High School in 2001, said that when she was in school prom invitations were “not that big of a deal.”But between when she left and then came back to teach in 2007, kids became extremely creative in their prom invites.Compare Supra shoes price and read chiffonbridesmaiddress reviews before you buy.And it doesn’t stop at prom.
For winter ball, which is a Sadie Hawkins-style affair where girls ask guys, “the girls show just as much creativity and enthusiasm in asking their dates in fun and entertaining ways,” Overly said.
Senior Stephanie Murphy said the dance invitations make the occasion even more exciting.“It kind of takes the awkwardness out of it if you do it in a fun way,” she said.Her prom date, Ben Fairbanks, played on her love of Cheez-Its by individually gluing the crackers on to a poster to form the words “I know this is cheesy but will you go to prom with me?”
He got School Resource Officer Matt Carr to pull Murphy, 17, out of calculus class in order to present the poster, she said.“I didn’t know who it was going to be but I knew I was going to be asked to prom,” she said. “Last year ... I got asked a couple times just normal but I chose to go with my friends. ... He asked me in a creative way and I thought it would be fun to go with a date as a senior. It would be weird to not go with a date at least once.”
But with a date comes ordering the prerequisite flowers. Murphy made sure to get a boutonniere for Fairbanks to match her high-low hemline tangerine gown.“I like that it’s more formal than the other dances and it’s fun to dress up,A royaloak is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony.” she said.“It’s fun to go with your friends and have a good time.”Will Wagner, a senior at Jackson Hole High School, decided to use a little imagination to romance his date, Chandler Billingham, to prom.
“I bought 28 roses, one for each hour of the [school] day,” he said. “One for first hour, two for second, three for third and so on.”Along with the roses, at each of her classes there was a word. Will. You. Go. To. Prom. With.At her last class, Wagner was waiting for her.Looking for a agatebeads?“I gave her the flowers and said ‘me!’” he said. “She was really happy, and ran and hugged me.”
Senior and student council member CJ Hoeft also got into his “ask.”He made a collage with pictures of him and his date, Paige Johnston, as a way to ask her to the dance.Creating a special invitation to prom “makes asking your date more fun,” he said.
Last year Hoeft led his date on a scavenger hunt around town.“It’s more flashy and shows that you really care when you put in more effort,” he said.For Hoeft and Wagner, going the extra mile was worth it.“It has become the social norm in Jackson to ask in an original way,” Wagner said. “If you don’t, it looks kind of lame, like you didn’t put effort into it.”Senior and student council president Nina Berlin’s boyfriend, junior Carson Meyer, waited until almost the last minute to ask her — the Monday before the dance. But his charming offer made up for his tardiness.
“He told me to meet him at his car,” she said. “I got to his car and he was standing there with a bouquet of flowers.”Along with red roses, he had drilled holes in three tennis balls and written “Prom?” on them.It was really cute, she said.“Making a big show of it impresses the girls or the boy,” Berlin said. “It sets the bar for a good time. There are not a lot of other creative outlets for kids who want to do something sweet for someone they want to ask.”
For the seniors, the prom is the “last hurrah” before graduation in June. It’s exciting and bittersweet at the same time, she said.
“It’s fun to be around everyone one more time versus just being in a classroom with 20 kids that you know,” Berlin said. “It’s 200 kids that you know.”The senior class has become one big family.
“Everyone is happy for each other and excited everyone else has ambition and is going somewhere that they like,” she said.
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