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Top Five Ways to Score a Date to Prom

Friendly, quirky and romantic. Here's a list of ways SPHS students asked their dates to the big event this weekend.

prom is this Saturday at Universal Studios. Still haven't made plans? Don't fret. Check out our top five ways to score a date. 

5. BE CREATIVE

South Pasadena Junior Mekayla Melahouris asked her boyfriend of 18 months using construction paper and flowers. One day as he was finishing football practice at Verdugo Hills High School, Melahouris led him to her using arrows made of the paper. She awaited his arrival with a bouquet of flowers.

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4. ACT LIKE IT'S NO BIG DEAL

Emma Mitchell asked her long-time best friend nonchalantly over . “It was nothing special. We’re going just for fun,” she said. “That’s just who we are.”

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3. CALL A DATE NIGHT

Junior Tyler Wong took his girlfriend, Amber Partida, to —the place where they had their first date. At the end of the meal, he walked her home to his house where flowers were waiting. And that’s when he dropped the question.

2. BEG YOUR FRIENDS

Well, don’t beg. … but ask. Sophomores Melissa Fennessy and America Hall scored tickets through their older friends. They will be going with a group of five girls.

1. MAKE PIGS FLY—LITERALLY

“When are you going to ask me to prom,” Zoey Dupont said to her boyfriend about three months ago. “When pigs fly,” Michael Abelev responded. Little did she know that that conversation would lead to quite the prom proposal. “I contemplated and daydreamed for a couple weeks on how I was going to pull it together,” Abelev said. The outcome? One friend dressed up as a UPS man while two others waited nearby with guitars. When Dupont opened the door, she was greeted with a cardboard box filled with tons of pink balloons painted with pig faces—and a sign that read “I guess I have to ask you now.” Around the corner Abelev was waiting in a car while his friends played “Today was a Fairytale” by Taylor Swift. 

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