By the time we got to the Prom it was literally 10:00 pm and they were not longer taking the Prom photos of the couples.  I had really wanted one.  Even though we had a reserved table, because we were so late someone else had moved in and refused to move.  So we had no place to sit and had to troll around looking for chairs.  I was upset and my guy was mad at himself for forgetting my flowers and my friend was furious with me.  She wouldn't even talk to me and her date never did show up. 

 

Since things were going badly, we decided after spending only 1 hour at the Prom to leave and go get something to eat and skip the after parties since the whole evening had been so stressful.  At the restaurant we couldn't get anyone to wait on us and the waitor who finally did told us that he hated Prom couple because they tipped so badly and were a pain in the ass.

 

We finally went back to my house and just hung out and watched movies and then fell asleep on the floor. 

 

It could have been a lot worse but after spending so much money on my hair and gown and accessories for basically one hour at the Prom it seemed like a total waste of money.    And one other good thing, my hair looked great and the updo didn't fall all evening.  So there was a benefit to being at the salon for four hours.

 

If I had it to over again I would have done a much better job of scheduling my time and would have planned to get to the Prom early rather than fashionably late which turned out to be a bad decision.

 

But bottom line, my hair looked really great.  :-)

I checked (like a thousand times!) that everything was set, including  backup plans in case someone or something bailed out on us.

Plus I scheduled my appointment WAY too early in the morning, but at least I never had to worry that I'd be late anywhere!

 

Actually the only bad thing was having to take the 1,000,000 bobby pins out of my hair!

 

Sorry about your prom!