What are the hottest themes this year? Poll your student body and find out what is HOT at your school, or search online for ideas! Will this be a formal or casual dance? Once you pick a theme, you can begin gathering your prom supplies and decorations to create those lasting memories!
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Prom season is in full swing. Unfortunately, the glitz and glamour of this special night frequently comes with drama and fighting among students. The quest to become prom royalty often leads to poor behavior from teens in an effort to win a popularity contest. This is one area where the beginning of new traditions could be a valuable tool in making your school’s prom more successful than ever.
This could be a great opportunity to help students learn real life skills that could help them when applying for colleges or jobs. Instead of a popularity contest, select candidates based on pre-determined criteria and a series of interviews. Create challenges to encourage students to conduct themselves in a professional manner and develop marketable skills. Get creative and think outside of the box! There are a ton of fun and educational ways to make the quest for prom royalty a growing experience for young professionals. This would be an especially great way to add practical skills to the resume of young people who often have a difficult time gaining experience. Encourage students to focus on education by setting a minimum GPA requirement for the candidates. By mimicking the college application process you can start students thinking about the steps sooner rather than later.
Community service is a great way to build the resume of young people. Set a minimum requirement for volunteer hours and have the candidates present an essay or multimedia project on their experiences. This will help to build public speaking skills as well as help students learn how to put together a professional project. Get the A/V department involved by taping speeches and interviews. They can edit them and broadcast to the school. Students can also learn great skills by creating quality video projects. Have students make practical, applicable plans on how they can solve a prominent social problem within the school. Schedule debates during which candidates can present their plans and discuss social issues and potential resolutions in a constructive way. By guiding the conversation and making it a positive discourse students will learn to be tolerant of opinions different than their own and to work through problems in a constructive way instead of arguing.
Social Media is more than just a way for teens to communicate with one another. The development of this branch of marketing has opened vast opportunities for networking. This is also an area where teens struggle with what information is appropriate to share. Have them create accounts to spread their ideas and further their campaign using social media. A short compilation of the data gained from their social media experience could be a great tool in college applications as well as applying for jobs and internships. This video is a great example of using technology to promote your candidates. If you would like your prom’s campaign to take on a more professional feel, encourage students to be more serious.
Let’s re-write the meaning of prom and use this as a jumping off opportunity for a more positive and productive prom experience. Our high quality prom court items will offer a fantastic reward for the winners of these coveted prizes. Students will truly appreciate the meaning behind their crowns when they have 
had such a positive experience and put such hard work into earning them. Reward their hard work by welcoming them with a walk down our luxurious red carpet. Make them feel really special by going all out with our robes and royal scepters. Our wide selection of tiaras and crowns will allow you to choose the perfect finish to your royal ceremony!
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2012 Event Trends Revealed
What’s hot and what’s not this year in the event planning industry? We asked top planners to share which event supplies and party supplies they feel are on fire in 2012.
Old World Vintage Events
As for popular decorations, Ana Skidmore of Two Foot Creative thinks, “the vintage look will still be around, but with a twist.” Skidmore predicts a more elegant vintage look. Rather than rustic, with “farms and old books and luggage,” events will probably show a more “old-world vintage.” 
This is a trend mostly seen in weddings, but what weddings start, proms soon follow. Just think: your prom theme could be An Evening Under the Stars, but then you could give it a Victorian twist, with more antique colors, such as gray, ivory, and gold.
Favors that Promise to be Popular in 2012
Another popular trend is offering party favors that are edible. Candy bars that are personalized with fun messages and names and personalized candy jars, lollipops, and mint tins are vogue in 2012.
Edible favors are sure to be popular at proms, dances, after-proms, and all sorts of other events this year. Personalized candy jars are not only a fun way to add a creative decoration to your event, but are also great for keeping your attendees or guests from getting too hungry. These personalized candy jars are sure to last a long time—the image you choose is printed directly onto the lids of the candy jar. This could be a favor that is planning-committee-specific—only members of the event planning committee can take these as favors.
Another great idea for favors is personalized photo frames. You could either choose frames with a personalized message on them or you could choose frames that your friends could sign and leave little notes on, thus adding to the memories from the evening.
More Hot Decorations for 2012
Choose a variety of backdrops for your prom that will work beautifully with the “old-world vintage” idea. Rather than simply sticking with a starry backdrop, you could also use a backdrop covered in red roses or a backdrop of Victorian feathered masks. Any of these, as well as many others, will work with grey, ivory, and gold for decorations.
After you’ve chosen the backdrop around which you’ll decorate, you can move on to colors. As Skidmore said, grey, ivory, and gold will be popular during the “old-world vintage” trend. This evokes a more elegant type of event, perfect for prom. You could use gold fabric for table covers and then focus on ivory and grey as your accent colors. If you run into problems finding grey accents, try focusing on ivory and gold as your two main colors and adding small amounts of black to set off the elegance of the event. Now, put your newly-learned skills to work and plan an elegant event to remember!
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