<p>Get a video of you asking her to prom, broadcast over the announcements.</p>
<p>IF you want to save some embarrassment, do it in the nerdiest way you can think of.</p>
<p>This is the story of how I asked a girl to prom a month ago, Sorry its told in a weird way, I was casually writing it to a friend.</p>
<p>Last weekend, My friend and I were chillin. And we made a plan, that at 2:30-3 in the morning, We would go to my future date’s house with a ladder, I would put it up to her window, and then hang a sign I had made in her window that said, “will you go to prom with me?” And I would knock on her window or call her and she would see it. </p>
<p>SO, we’re chillin, then at about 2:30 we get there and lurk pretty hard. We get a ladder set up and then we kinda realize that if she sees/hears me lurking on her roof she will call the cops and I’d get shot. So my friend leaves, and I think about what im gunna do. I decide to leave, and I totally forgot the ladder there, but anyways, I get back to my car, and at that exact time, a cop pulls up next to me. He asks me what im doing and I tell him I was just going to ask this girl to prom and I explained what I was going to do/ he calls me an idiot and he lectures me on how to ask a girl to prom. he tells me to go home, and so I just head home.</p>
<p>And the next day my future date texts me saying that someone left a ladder up agaisnt her window. And her Parents called the cops that morning and they came over and questioned her asking if she had any enemies at school or anythign, ahaha. So I’m like, nuttz, my plan failed hardcore. Haha, But I go over and explain what I was going to do, and she and her mom loved the idea and thought it was funny. But yeaa, plan was good but my execution was lacking a bit.</p>
<p>Forkingjamie, that’s hilarious! Did you ask her another way, or did she say yes?</p>
<p>what if she found the idea off this thread and realized it wasn’t original but you had stolen it off of some CCer?</p>
<p>has anyone mentioned on this thread yet that at the MIT admitted students weekend last month, someone posted a banner on the front wall of a building that said something along the lines of “Name-of-the-girl, would you go to the prom with me?” Apparently she said yes. It was cute.</p>
<p>Ooh I’ve got some good ones.</p>
<p>Say you’re at her place, alone. Propose going out. Climb a tree. This tree has a view to a sign/stone arrangement on the roof asking her to go to the prom. Pretend to point out the normal things like the gorgeous view or something, til she realizes the sign on her own and goes all nuts about it and then play dumb. When she starts to think it wasn’t you who put it up there, say it actually was.
Obviously, edit this to work out for your situation or her house or whatever.</p>
<p>Second proposition: Do something smart. Be anonymous at first, drop off messages, flowers, cryptic stuff. That is literally the most creative you can get. Let me give you and example: for secret santa this year, I got the name of a close friend. He likes math, and pranks. I like getting creative and standing out from the bunch, so this is what I did (Trust me, it’s a good read):</p>
<p>Day one: I attached a small gift to the bottom side of his desk. He didn’t notice it til he sat down and his foot hit it and it fell on the ground, in the middle of the class, causing him to be all “***” out loud. Everyone noticed.
Second day: I wrote several slabs of paper and dispersed them in such a way for it to be like this: Dude sits down. Sees first message: Look down. He looks down on the floor. 2nd message: Not here, dude, up. Looks up - now he’s looking at the bottom side of the desk, where I attached the first gift. Up there is a message that says: “Better luck next time”. At that point, he laughed, thanked his SS, and then sat down. Period begins. He opens his pencil case, and finds another message. “I was just joking dude, check your bag.” Checks bag. New message: “Other pocket”. ANOTHER message in that pocket: “Not this bag, dude, the guy behind you’s bag”. In there was a gift, with a message for the other guy not to touch it in case he found it by accident.
Convoluted isn’t it? I had half the class laughing out loud using pieces of paper.
Next day: Two oranges and a banana sitting square on his desk. You figure it out. (Think pervertedly.)
Fourth day: Message on table “The usual spot” Another small gift attached to the bottom side of the desk.
Day 5: Cryptic message that revealed who I was. He couldn’t decipher it. I’d used several codes and crypts and stuff to make it, did a bit of research. Had some math in it too, and some convoluted ideas. What he didn’t realize though was that in the letter (which was encrypted), I’d wrote my name - vertically, using the first letter of each line: “It’s Jimmy you moron.”
Day 6: Message that reveals how to decrypt the code, which said “think vertically”. He found the message, looked around, then found me holding his final gift.</p>
<p>Anyway, think like that. Use a variant of it or something, send flowers and stuff anonymously, use some secretive messages (nothing as convoluted as what I did though, unless she really loves math) day by day, to build her anticipation, like “wow who is this guy”, and then just make it explicitly obvious that it’s you in a message, but make it in a way that she doesn’t notice it (much like my vertical placement of my name) and then last day, tell her how to read it to figure out it’s you, and where to meet you or something, or ask her to the prom in the message, etc. Possibilities are endless.</p>
<p>One of my friends ran up to his girlfriend in the middle of her class in a speedo (he’s a swimmer) and “Will you go to prom with me?” written all over himself in the school colors. After she said yes he ran down the hall with a blow horn screaming “yeahhh!” It took a while for it to get around exactly <em>why</em> he was yelling but after everyone found out most people thought it was neat.
Another kid wrote “prom?” in fast food stickers. I figured he works there and had a ton of them, or she did. idk.</p>
<p>Jimmy.
You are one clever boy. I could never ever think of that XD</p>
<p>and to the OP, I REALLY like the darkroom idea. get a friend to help you with photography if you’re not too good with it.</p>
<p>Why do people ask their significant others to prom, isn’t it understood the two are going together? I mean I wouldn’t like it if I had a girlfriend and she went with someone else and it would be a dick move for me to go with someone else.</p>
<p>To preface these remarks, I play guitar, bass, and drums, and have a great deal of professional-quality recording equipment, so this approach may not be effective or feasible for everyone. </p>
<p>I asked my date to prom by recording a cover of a popular song. I rewrote the lyrics to match her personality and included the musical request itself in the final chorus. My date and I have a first period foreign language class together, so I asked the teacher to replace one of our oral comprehension listening exercise CDs with the song I recorded. She played it in class, et voil</p>
<p>Being serenaded is always very awesome :)</p>
<p>Another awesome one that someone did last year–find a big open field. Spell out Prom? really really big in Christmas lights. Take her to said open field (it might be better if there’s a building with a balcony conveniently overlooking the field :p). Have someone plug in the lights once she’s there.</p>
<p>Cutest way I’ve ever heard of.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Prom???](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVPgyyTQa7w]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVPgyyTQa7w) really cuteee</p>
<p>I know someone who was really into technology (and so was his potential girl), so he programmed her calculator so that when she turned it on, the screen read “Will you go to prom with me?” She was delighted and said yes.</p>
<p>A boy at my school asked a girl to prom under the pretense of giving a morning announcement. Every week there’s a speaker who shares a story with a moral, be it to work hard, or to never give up hope, etc. </p>
<p>He gave a speech about Carpe Diem, and it led up to his invitation. “Now I will show you what it means to Carpe Diem - to seize the day. _______, will you go the prom with me?” </p>
<p>And then the squeals and claps erupted. She said yes.</p>
<p>This was on the news:</p>
<p>[It’s</a> prom knight - NYPOST.com](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/crazy_stuy_high_dance_invites_tradition_YKNlKFTgVecMroDVXASjHJ]It’s”>It’s prom knight)</p>
<p>And on the radio:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - 1010 WINS Stuyvesant HS Prom Proposals 2010](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pejEcogb_4]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pejEcogb_4)</p>
<p>You should totally decorate the exterior of her house (with her parents’ permission, of course.) get your friends to ask her and her friends to hang out with them for a whole day or something, and if she asks you if you can go, say that you’re busy with a family thing. then decorate the house with her parents, if possible (they can help out so that you won’t be so exhausted.) Make sure you know when your friends (and the girl) are going to be back. Try to make it around 7:00PM. You should prepare her a candlelit dinner AND MAKE THE DINNER YOURSELF! 
aww that’s so sweet. i would totally want someone to ask me like that.</p>