Here's my estimation per 'couple':
- Ticket for student and date $190
- Frock $130 (I've just picked an average - hopefully some are wearing something they had or borrowed, some are very expensive!!)
- Shoes $150
- Accessories/bag/Hollywood tape/special bra to fit dress - $80 (I'm not kidding - I'm guessing every one has had a heap of 'extras')
- Nails $40 (toes and fingers - again averaging shellacs, manis and pedis that could have that over $100)
- Make up $90 (yes you get it back in product, but product you'd not otherwise have bought so that doesn't mitigate the damage)
- Spray Tan (most girls now look like come from a different ethnicity than that to which they were born) $40
- Hair $30
- Transport from pres to event, from event to after party $40
- Corsage $30
- Button hole flower $12
- Some extremely kind and generous parents are hosting pres and the after party - so I have no idea what that adds - let's have a stab at $60 for both (including parents at the pres) so $120
- I'm assuming the boys had a suit and, if necessary, can wear their school shoes!
So about $952 per student, including date. What the heck - let's call it a grand! I had no allowance for eyebrow waxing or eye lash extensions or the essential hair cut and colour two weeks ago - so I think that's not unreasonable! In fact, it's probably a tad light on.
So if there's 100 of the year level going, there's $100k!!
Not to mention the time running around and organising and appointments and emails of consent because they're all under age.....
So if there's 100 of the year level going, there's $100k!!
Not to mention the time running around and organising and appointments and emails of consent because they're all under age.....
You'd think they were getting married!
The school doesn't endorse a Year 11 formal - and I don't blame them. Again, some incredibly fabulous mothers have pulled it all together.
It's on tonight and the excitement reached frenzy point about.... let's think.... a week ago? So much so that in fact, they're all a bit over it already. Some have gone off their dresses, their shoes, their dates - the whole idea. Which might be just as well as I was worried that their expectations were such that they could only be disappointed.
Anyway, they will have fun and create some great shared memories with what will turn out to be some life-long friends - even if it does cost a small fortune.
The school doesn't endorse a Year 11 formal - and I don't blame them. Again, some incredibly fabulous mothers have pulled it all together.
It's on tonight and the excitement reached frenzy point about.... let's think.... a week ago? So much so that in fact, they're all a bit over it already. Some have gone off their dresses, their shoes, their dates - the whole idea. Which might be just as well as I was worried that their expectations were such that they could only be disappointed.
Anyway, they will have fun and create some great shared memories with what will turn out to be some life-long friends - even if it does cost a small fortune.
