I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date!

This is one date the Prom Club doesn’t want you to be late for. After beginning plans for prom early last fall, the club now will see their work come to fruition Saturday with the Alice in Wonderland theme.

“It’s actually based off of the original Disney movie,” Prom club officer senior Lauren Baker said. “We thought about doing the Through the Looking Glass and doing more of the book, but we figured it would be more relatable just to stick to that classic Alice in Wonderland idea.  We tried to kind of avoid the Tim Burton one just because we didn’t know if people would catch some of the references.”

The theme was chosen out of a cluster of different ideas, such as a masquerade and a black and white theme, but Alice in Wonderland won by an overwhelming majority in the club-wide vote. The student body also helped shape the dance into its final result.

“We got a lot of opinions from people about what they liked and didn’t like about last year and how we can apply that to this year,” Baker said. “Just little things here and there that we can tweak to make it more of what the student body wants to see.”

The dance, which is from 8 p.m. to midnight at The Renaissance hotel in Austin, will have lots of nods to the Alice in Wonderland novel and Disney film, including clocks, tea pots , keys and the Queen’s notoriously red roses.

“Basically it’s like you just stepped into Wonderland,” sophomore Kailey Einkauf said. “Remember the keyhole? That’s like a big part in it too. It’s just like you’re taking a walk through Wonderland, like each part of it. Whatever comes to your mind whenever you think of Alice in Wonderland is gonna be what you’re gonna see. So if you think about the queen and the roses, you’re gonna see some roses there. All the stuff you would think about, you would see.”

With having Alice in Wonderland as its theme, the many options and ideas available to them proved to be its own challenge.

“I think the hardest thing we had to deal with was finding out which way we were gonna direct it and try to get all of it done, because we have a lot of ideas and trying to get it done in the amount of time that we have, and a lot of the projects are kind of elaborate so it takes a lot of time to do them,” Einkauf said.

But after eight months of hard work, Prom Club’s Wonderland is ready for its visitors to make their way down the rabbit hole.

“I think it’s great,” Einkauf said. “I think it’s gonna be amazing, I think it’s really different, I think it’s a unique idea so I think it’s gonna be awesome.”