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22 Steps of Formal Season

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Wisconsin chapter.

Formal season has arrived! The time of year where you can finally tell your crush that you’re interested, party with your friends, and take pictures in pretty dresses. However, we all know formal doesn’t always turn out the way we plan it to. Here is a list of the classic formal struggles us girls seem to always run into. Enjoy, and be safe! 

When you realize formal is only a couple days away and you’re dateless!

You think of the person you want to ask and get mentally prepared

Oh no, he’s taken already!

But you obv play it cool

When you’re really feeling

But then you realize your best guy friend doesn’t have a date yet so you ask him…and he says yes thank god!

The night before you can’t contain your excitement

Getting ready the night of formal

When you walk into formal and everyone’s with their boyfriend

But it’s okay cause you and your date are gonna have a better time 

When you realize the food’s gone…

Oh wait, they’re bringing more out! Phew!

After you scarf down the whole buffet, you run straight to the bar

You spot the sober monitors whispering and pointing at you

They find you and tell you to slow it down

Some rando tries to steal your date

So you get him back and overstep your friend boundaries

You’re gonna regret that in the morning  

So you decide to dance with your besties

Then it starts getting sentimental

You sit in the corner and talk about all your feelings

And comfort each other

And before you know it, formals over!

Your date is no where to be found and the next thing you know it your on the floor of your dorm room

The next morning your friends tell you all about your night

You pledge to never act like that at a formal again

But who are you kidding?

Ava Paradise is currently a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin- Madison majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication 
Becca Bahrke is a junior at the University of Wisconsin- Madison majoring in Retailing and minoring in Entrepreneurship and Gender & Women Studies. Becca is currently the CC/EIC of Her Campus- Wisconsin, and will continue writing news. Becca's primary hobby is blogging on her tumblr http://beccahasnothingtowear.tumblr.com