Sharing the common love for the sci-fi show Doctor Who, senior Blake Young decided to ask senior Kaylee Colon to the dance by writing ‘Prom’ in all of her classes in Gallifreyan, a language from the show. He then showed up at her house with the same symbols on his car and blasting the song “Love of the Light” by Mumford and Sons. When Kaylee came out of the house Blake was standing next to the word ‘Prom?’ to which she said yes.
“I was excited, because she looked excited,” Young said. “It was pretty easy to come up with cause I knew she liked Doctor Who. I was asking someone to prom, why wouldn’t be excited?”
When junior Kelly Ford ordered Chinese food, she didn’t know it was coming with a special fortune. She had ordered some food from Great Wall Chinese restaurant that senior Brent Miller delivered for. So when he saw her box, he spontaneously wrote prom in the inside lid. After he gave her the food, Ford opened the box and saw the message, she immediately called him with an excited yes.
“I was really surprised, because I wasn’t expecting it,” Ford said. “I knew we were going to prom together, but I didn’t know how he would ask me. It didn’t even cross my mind that that was a way to ask. It was super cute.”
Senior Justin Pelt wanted to go big this year when asking senior Annie Wingard to prom. He first had Annie go on a scavenger’s hunt around Leander where there was a letter and a note to the next place. The last letter led her to the football field, where there was the word ‘Prom’ in big letters made out of Christmas lights. Justin was standing in front of the lights with the last letter and a sign that said prom. She said yes just as the sun was setting.
“I knew he was going to meet me somewhere, but I didn’t know it was going to be with lights,” Wingard said. “It was a really cool adventure. I felt like I was on the Amazing Race. It was really fun.”
Chandler Gonzalez and Hope Rasmussen
After scrolling through prom proposal options on the Internet, senior Chandler Gonzalez found the perfect option – tea lights. To ask his girlfriend, sophomore Hope Rasmussen, to prom he laid out tea lights on her driveway spelling out “Prom?” while she was inside. He then called her family who sent her outside with the excuse of going to get a Red Box movie, where she found Gonzalez in a suit with a giant red plastic daisy. She, of course, agreed.
“I could feel her excitement when she came running towards me screaming “Oh my god!! I love you,” Gonzalez said. “I’ve never felt the happiness in someone like that before.”
Jesse O’Rourke and Kathleen Callender
A hunt through memory lane. For junior Jesse O’Rourke asking his girlfriend, Vista Ridge junior Kathleen Callender, to prom through a scavenger hunt led her through important locations in their relationship.
The couple was supposed to have a dinner date that night but O’Rourke canceled, upsetting Callender.
“I was kind of upset because it had been a pretty rough day,” Callender said.
Her mom picked her up late from school due to a PALs meeting and told her collect a notecard off the dashboard the read “Surprise Scavenger Hunt.” The hunt led her to sites that were significant to the couple, including the location of their six month anniversary date, Bellini’s Texas Grill. At each stop she received a letter from the cashier and a letter that helped to spell out “Prom.” The last location was Which Wich where O’Rourke was waiting with a question mark.
“The fact that he went through so much trouble planning, putting it all together made me feel so special,” Callender said. “I’m not sure how he managed to keep it a surprise, seeing as we spend almost every day together. He’s seriously the sweetest, most thoughtful guy ever.”
With threats of promposing with tacos, senior Zoe Otey was beginning to worry about how her boyfriend of four years, senior Jayton Davis, would ask her. Otey told Davis that he had to prompose or she would find another guy to take her. In the end Otey walked to her car afterschool April 25 to find a dozen roses and a stuffed puppy holding a sign that read ‘prom’ as well as the song her and Davis first danced to at his freshman band banquet “You Had Me From Hello” by Kenny Chesney playing out of Davis’s car.
“I felt like it wasn’t enough,” Davis said. “Our song replayed four times, it was taking forever for her to come outside.”
This will be Davis and Otey’s second prom together.
“I’m so excited about my dress and honestly, just being with Jayton,” Otey said. “We don’t get to go out very much and I am really excited to dress up and spend the night with him in a setting that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”