Each spring provides opportunities for new and innovating promposals. Promposals are just what they sound like, a proposal to prom. There’s the constant competition to have the more creative proposal, but everyone can agree that as long as it is heartfelt, that’s all that counts.

“While I was on a cruise, I met this guy, Nathaniel Reed, and after his last show on Saturday night, we just went to one of the lounges with a piano and all of the sudden there was a prom song!” Senior Ben Piascik wrote a song to ask his hopeful date.

His date, senior Sandy Zhang, was not expecting it, to say the least. “I was really shocked! It was the good kind of surprise. He was clever and cute, I was so excited!”

Senior Nate Ashbey dressed up as a penguin and placed a stone with “PROM?” written on it, and surprised senior Emma Hansen during advisory. Hansen works at the aquarium, and her favorite animal is the penguin.

“I decided to go with the “cuteness” factor with my proposal, that’s how I ended up in a penguin suit. My favorite part of the promposal was seeing the look on her face when I showed up to her advisory in a penguin suit” said Ashbey.

“I was so excited! I knew he was going to ask me but I definitely wasn’t expecting to see him in a penguin suit. He proposed the same way a male penguin would propose to a female!” said Hansen.

Senior Maura Arnold placed golf balls on tees and spelled out “PROM?” in her backyard for junior Mitch Mirabito.

“My boyfriend plays golf and works at a golf course, so I thought it was appropriate” said Arnold. Golf is a common interest between the two- something that they both enjoy. Asking this way combined something that they both love in a cute and creative manner.