Prom season may have ended but there is one more event later this week in Truro, N.S. However, there won’t be any teenagers attending; that’s because it’s the town's first-ever “Grown-Up Prom.”
Dress shop owner Karen Baillie can count on hearing the same thing every year.
“Every year, women come in and say, ‘I’d love to go to a prom’ or ‘I’d love to get all dressed up,” says Baillie. “I always said I wanted to do an event, but just never quite got the right idea.”
Baillie and her friends came up with the idea for the “Grown-Up Prom,” where you can wear a fancy dress or jeans and a t-shirt.
“I like to think of it as being all of the fun, without having to be a teenager,” says prom organizer Michelle McCann. “You know, we’re at the point where we can laugh at ourselves and come and have a great time.”
Everything including the venue, music and photography has been donated, and all money raised will go towards the safe grad program for the local high school.
“A lot of these students, when they graduate from high school, they go their separate ways,” says principal Bill Kaulbach. “It’s a great way to kick off the end of their high school career… start off their summer vacation.”
“We’re also asking if there are used prom dresses in your home and you’d like to donate them, we’ll gather them up,” says Baillie. “There’s a lot students at C.E.C and the high schools that can’t afford a prom dress.”
The prom promises to be just like the real thing, only it will end at 10pm. Some people have to get up for work in the morning.
