OMG! It’s a totally rad prom flashback extravaganza!

Today’s post is part of a Flashback Friday Prom Picture event conceived by and posted in conjunction with the awesome Stiletto Mom. Please head over there and check out her pictures, because she went to Prom in 1983 people, and she promises a Pepto Bismol colored formal dress.

The year is 1991. “I Wanna Sex You Up” by Color Me Badd is playing relentlessly on the radio. That spring I had a sort-of boyfriend whom I had been dating for a while. And by a while I mean a few weeks. For me that was epic. We were supposed to go to the Prom and I had gone to a large mall out of town with my mom to buy a dress. Then the sort-of-boyfriend wrecked his truck spinning brodies and was in all sorts of trouble with his parents and backed out of going to the prom. I think you can imagine how unhappy I was with him. He tried to suggest alternate plans for that evening, but I was having none of it. I had a dress hanging up in my closet and I was going to wear it.

There was a really cute boy who sat in front of me in Señor Hernandez’s Spanish III class. He overheard me discussing the distressing turn of events my prom plans had taken with my friend Jane and mentioned that his date, who was supposed to come in from the Bay Area to go with him, had bailed also.

Did I want to go with him?

Not only did I go to my Junior Prom with him, I married him 8 years later.

  

The Prom was our first official date. We listened to EMF ‘Unbelievable’ over and over again in the car and went out to a fancy dinner with a huge group of people, then to a party at a motel. We never set foot inside the actual dance. After we left the party some of us headed back to my parent’s house, which was conveniently empty as my Mom and Dad were away at my Aunt’s wedding that night. I believe we smoked a joint the size of a tampon, knocked back some beers and then I fell asleep on my parent’s gigantic sectional sofa. Poor Mr. C never even got a good night kiss.

When I woke up the next morning he was gone. We went out once or twice after that but then he graduated and moved away. It wasn’t until a few years later that we really started dating seriously.

For me the best thing about our prom picture is that Mr. Caffeinated is wearing a Z Cavaricci suit instead of a tux. He loved that suit and at the time it was hawt. I’m not quite sure why I chose to wear full length gloves. They’re a bit much. Also, the florist decided to dye the Baby’s Breath on my corsage black, so everything just blends in.  I did manage to poof my hair out quite a bit, and you may have noticed that I had a penchant for fuchsia lipstick back then.

Me and the girls changed out of our formal dresses and got into full on party mode. I loved my Aunt so much for getting married on Prom night.

Here’s another one from ‘91, not a prom pic but from a Backwards Dance. That’s what we called our Sadie Hawkin’s type dance when the girl asks the guy. I included it here because my hair is so big as to be ridiculous. Also, I wish I could go back in time and wax my eyebrows.

I blurred my date’s face out because I haven’t spoken to the guy in about 16 years and I’m not sure how he would feel about me using his picture here. Also, I’m not sure why we’re standing in a castle. I really miss how easy it was to style my hair back then. I went through truckloads of shampoo, conditioner, hairspray and Vavoom Glazing. All I had to do was blow dry it upside down and then pick it out some, scrunch the curl with spritz and then hair spray the bejeezus out of it. Those were the days.

Senior Prom 1992. I went with the same blurred out date that I went to the Backwards Dance with. I distinctly remember when I found the dress. My Mom and I had been kind of shopping around for a couple of weeks, and then I happened to come across a long  black velvet column dress at some little out of the way shop. It was $99.

I have almost no memory of that night. It’s just gone. I guess I remember my junior prom so well because I went with Danny and he ended up being my husband. I have a lot of pictures of myself in that dress, though.

Here’s me and Mom. Talk about some big hair. You can see where I learned my technique from. I also have to laugh at the country blue and mauve wall border behind us. Our whole house was decorated in country blue and mauve for a few years.

That’s my best friend Diann. Her purple sequined dress was knee length when she bought it but she took it to a seamstress and had it shortened to a mini. That cracks me up. She had great legs, though. Still does. Might as well show ‘em off.

That wraps up my big haired, sequined Prom Flashback, kids. If you are posting your own prom pics today, make sure you comment here or at The Stiletto Mom and we will link back to you. Thanks for playing along!

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And don’t forget to visit these other totally rad prom flashback posts:

The Stiletto Mom

Casey at Half As Good As You 

Joy at All Because Two People Fell In Love

Heidi at Heidi’s Hell Hole

For A Different Kind Of Girl

Middle Aged Woman at Unmitigated

Laufa at Morgan Madness

Michele at It’s A Dog’s Life

Jenni at Jiggety Jigg

Peggy at Stir Crazy in the Suburbs

Jenni at Oscarelli

Papa at PapaTV

Chasity at My Neurotic Spot

Bex at Adventures of the Griggs Boys

Prefers Her Fantasy Life

Mo at The Daily Snark

Jen at Sprite’s Keeper (It’s weird to link to her instead of the other way around

Pamela at The Dayton Time

ChurchPunkMom

Mama Badger at Out of the Boondocks and Into the Burbs

Keely at The UnMom

Laurin at Laurin and Kelly Talk

Confessions of a College Angel

Miss Night Owl

The Mister

Christie at Bushel and a Peck

Jen at Steenky Bee