Prom Spending Tops $1,000

USA Today:

Prom is the new wedding, and spending on the springtime high school dance is climbing within reach of celebrations of holy matrimony.

Mary Stirsman says she couldn't imagine buying her 17-year-old daughter Madison the $500 dress she found at an Indianapolis boutique on one recent shopping trip, because Stirsman only spent $800 on her own wedding dress. But a higher price tag is the new norm for an increasingly lavish event for which teens and their families are dropping loads of cash on one-of-a-kind dresses and tuxes, limos or party buses, hair, makeup, jewelry, flowers, dinner and dance tickets.

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Comments

[Piglet2]

09:55 PM on 04/18/2012

Sad that the price of proms excludes so many that simply can't afford to attend. I bet Mitt's kids all attended their proms.

[amorosotom]

08:04 AM on 04/17/2012

You know back in the hippie late 60's and early 70's proms actually became "squaresville". We didn't spend big bucks to dress up like nerds. We were into stopping the war and saving the environment. A real waste of time. Wars will go on and the environment will be raped. So maybe today's young people have the right idea. The hell with social issues. Let's just do silly, inane activities.