Promposals are a real thing, people. If you happen to be in high school and reading this, we’re not telling you anything you don’t know. But if you happen to be, um, a little bit older, here’s the gist: the word it a hybrid of prom and proposal, and it’s when somebody asks someone to be his or her date to the prom in a method that is generally creative, elaborate, and over-the-top. And today’s best promposal ideas with blow your mind.
If the flurry of promposals on the Web is any indication, this whole phenomenon is taken very seriously by those who choose to participate. From dudes writing their promposals on the flanks of real-life horses, to girls promposing to guys (feminism!) by dressing up as zombies and making cupcakes that resemble human brains—it’s a major thing.
Bonus: We can’t decide which is the worst promposal ever. It’s either this guy, who sent his intended a fake college rejection letter as his invitation …