I need help with my daughter's prom!?!
Answers: We live in a rural community! So my daughter and about 7 other of her friends want to have dinner at our house before Prom since the a nice restaurant is like 45 miles away! So I want to make them some rib eye steaks and shrimp, is this too much? I want it to be nice for them, also their prom theme has to do with somehting under the sea, how can I make our dining room look like their eating under water- like with a lamp or something, I have seen them on movies, but where do I get one/make one! Help, Prom is this Saturday!
What a wonderful mom you are! Here are some ideas you might find helpful:
1. Go to a yardage shop and find some inexpensive, sheer material in aqua's, greys, blues, silver etc. and create a draping look by securing it on the ceiling in the middle of your room and letting the material tent slightly and then fastening it to the walls, creating.
2. Using an assortment of large and small seashells, and starfish to decorate your table with candles and shells on a mirrored surface (great reflection!)
3. Little white Christmas lights around the room and in the draping material will create a magical atmosphere.
4. Large cylendrical vases filled with water, stones, and fresh flowers are very in right now. (secure flowers on bottom and fill water around them to give them a "floating' look)
For food:
1. Create a platter of large prawns and cracked crab with cocktail sauce and lemon (on ice).
2. Grill your ribeyes or small fillets and serve with twice baked potatos and a simple salad of baby lettuce, candied walnuts, raspberries, feta cheese and raspberry vinagrette.
3. Create a signature "mock" coctail for the kids. Alcohol free cosmopolitans or margaritas or blue hawaii's are very in these days and be sure to serve them in some nice stemware.
4. For dessert: create a platter with mini desserts such as lemon bars, brownie bites, and cookies.
Good luck!
You can hang streamers, turn out the lights and cover up the windows. I think it is too much food they will all be too excited and nervous to eat a lot.
I'm no martha stewart so I can't help much on the decorations, but your food idea is great! I don't think it's too much. For my prom we went to a little redneck place (it was the only restaraunt my friend's OCD boyfriend would go to) it was a real disappointment, not to mention a crappy memory to boot. So, I think the ribeye and shrimp idea is great! You could even make little menus that say what's on the menu for the night to make it seem more legit :)
I personally wouldn't want to eat a huge meal before prom, just because of all the dancing (you don't want to get a stomach ache at the prom). Steaks and shrimp sound really nice but maybe just small portions would do.
For an underwater decor i would get blue and green streamers. You can buy revolving lamps with cuts out in the lamp shade (they reflect the cut out shadow on the wall). I've seen these before at Home Depot, Walmart and children's stores (as a night light for kids). If you put a blue bulb in a lamp like this it would cast a cool blue glow around the room. Of course you couldn't really have any other lights on, unless you changed those bulbs too.
Blue/Green theme table cloths and decorations would add a nice touch.
good day,
Prom (under the sea)
do y'all have any Goodwill's or thrift stores in your town?/
buy sheets in sea colors, you can also pick up shells and
coral pieces. You can use the sheets , dig out some xmas white lights, strip the sheet and tack to ceiling and in-twine the lights, put in blue bulbs and have underwater sounds like whales...
Food,
I would do something like;
filet mignons
top with lump crab
and Bearnaise sauce,
fresh steamed asparagus
fresh spinach salad w/ fresh berries and
ken raspberry dressing..
the menu it light and very elegant and pretty, enjoy
You could go and get one of those soothing tapes with ocean sounds,
You could decorate the table with fake bubbles
You usually can get then at Michaels or Hobby Lobby and look in the flower section and get something that look simular to see weed
Or fill a cute inexpensive clear bowl with water and add seashells. or sand and sea shells.
I would use curling ribbon for your streamers in blue and green (maybe even metallic color)
Buy a huge shell and put small sea looking flowers in them
Floating candles could help too
they make them in all shapes!