Asking someone to prom is no longer a casual gesture, but rather, a “promposal” is required to make it official. The gentlemen of St. Dominic are expected to rise above and beyond in finding creative ways to ask the ladies to A Night Under the Lights this year. Posters, cheesy sayings and incorporating the girl’s interests are essential when creating the perfect promposal. Although they are off to a slow start, the gentlemen have not failed to impress when it comes to creating unique promposals.

Senior couple Dominic Candela and Chelsea Hazell will be attending prom this year after Candela promposed, surprising Hazell after work. Candela, persistent in his pursuit to prompose, waited forty minutes outside of Twin Oaks for Hazell to get off work. After a long wait, Hazell was greeted in the parking lot with a poster which said, “I don’t know if I can write a story quite like ours, so will you complete this chapter and go to prom with me?”

Junior Jack Klopstein asked Mary Maloney to prom using her favorite TV show, The Bachelor. After attending Maloney’s varsity soccer game against Duchesne, he promposed with a sign saying, “Mary, will you accept this rose so I’m not a bachelor at prom?”

“Even though he isn’t Ben Higgins I still said yes,” said Maloney.

Senior couple Daniel Schroer and Mackenzie Steckler will be attending prom after Steckler was sent out on a short, sweet adventure. Schroer, with the help of his younger sister, sent Steckler on a scavenger hunt which included roses with little notes attached to them, eventually leading her to a 1957 John Deere tractor with a sign next to it saying, “PROM?”

Junior Colin Mueller promposed to Helen Wilmes by creatively incorporating lacrosse. Mueller jumped on top of a table during engineering class and held up a sign that said, “I’m ‘lacrossing’ my fingers that you’ll go to prom with me.”

Prom is quickly approaching, and although many lucky ladies have already been promposed to, others are still waiting for a brave man to step up and sweep them off their feet. The standards are high, so the question is, can the boys continue to pull through before prom arrives? Tickets may be purchased outside of the cafeteria during lunch periods until Friday, April 29, so be sure to find a date before it is too late!