Prom car issues

[Donut22]

Aibu to drive my son to prom.... Bear in mind he is happy with this, he isn't a flashy person he would hate to be the centre of attention and also I haven't got the funds!!
I was speaking to someone out side the school yesterday and it's just bothered me I said I was taking him, her reply was "well I got my girl a Lambo" 🙄am I really going to be the only parent to drive their child to school in our normal car? It's an old car but still looks ok with a carwash 😅

I don't know of anyone who has hired any kind of car for Prom - ever.

I've watched 3 prom arrivals and you get buses, coaches, limos, hummers, fancy sports cars, fire engines, ambulances, horses, carts, tractors ... and loads of normal cars. Everyone cheers everything except the horses which look like they are going to bolt.

I saw a prom recently and two flash cars only. Everyone else walked on foot (parked around the corner) and dropped off by normal cars.

Kids turn up in different vehicles, from limousine, range rovers, fiat's, motorbikes even on buses. As long as he's happy I wouldn't worry. My eldest dd went in a limousine. My next dd went in a sports car and ds went in his mates mum's galaxy. None of them have ever mentioned the transport.

My youngest has just left school. Nobody had a limo for any of their proms. They were dropped off or walked or took the bus.

It would be seen as very tacky here to hire a car like that.

I just drove my son, a ridiculous waste of money hiring a lambo. My son isn’t flash and never wanted anything special for prom, he wore the same suit he had for 6th form

Are you in the UK? My daughter's prom was yesterday. From what I saw every single person was dropped off in a normal car or walked there with friends. I mean at the end of the day it's just a fancy school disco. My daughter's dress cost £95 which was the most expensive piece of clothing she's ever owned. But apparently some (insane) people spent £500 on a dress.....

As far as I'm aware it's a bit different in the USA (ridiculous excess).... and these ridiculous traditions are seeping into UK culture.

Someone turned up to ours in a helicopter (and that was a northern state school 20 years ago)- fancy cars definitely featured BUT so did an awful lot of normal cars. I went in normal cars to both of mine and was happy then and not scarred by it now!

Hardly anyone here hires a fancy car. Most of the boys just walk to prom. Some girls are driven in their parents’/friends’ parents’ cars because they are wearing heels.

Is this in USA??

A friend with a nice car drove my daughter and 2 of her friends and we took our son in my husbands van. He wanted to walk in 🤷 😂. People arrive in all sorts of vehicles.

lots of limos and sports cars too but also lots of regular cars.

My daughters was last year, I hired her prom dress around £75 it was gauges. But my sister spent £400 on my nices I was 😳. I didn't even spend that much on my wedding dress. She can have an expensive prom dress when she graduates university not high school. She will have another 'prom' in 2 years when she's done her A-level's and I'm sure she won't want to wear the same dress then.

I’m in West Yorkshire and have seen most of those in the last couple of years.

DS had his last year, we got a friend with a very nice sports car to take him. The car was the most important part to DS as that’s his interest. Everything else was done very cheaply including suit etc. Lots of normal cars as well. If you DS is happy then I wouldn’t worry at all.

I think it's massively getting out hand. Yes drive him. I went in my dad's handover. As in farm style handover. Not a posh one!

Oh and on the car front she went with a friend in her Dad's car, no limos. There was the odd one but most just turned up.in normal cars.

Took my dd and her 5 friends in my 7 seater people carrier - none of them had any issues nor their parents! One lad came on his dads tractor pulling her s mates in a trailer (city too but on edge) one back of motorcycle but vast majority normal cars

We went to watch arrivals at ds1's prom on Monday.

I saw two limousines, a handful of sports cars, a retro camper van, several minibuses, a few regular taxis and then just lots and lots of 'normal' cars.

BTW I've observed that the flashier proms and outrageous spending seem inverse to the income in the area - in "solid middle class" type areas like where I lived people don't seem to go all out whereas my friend teaches in a very poor area and it's crazy what parents spend

We never had a prom 🥺
They hadn't got here yet

There are lots of Lambos / Porsches / G Wagons here but we live in a very wealthy area so there are lots of them kicking about. I suspect most of them are favours from a friend rather than hired.

Otherwise there's always our Vauxhall Mokka 🤷🏻‍♀️

We all went to our leavers ball on the train, back in the dark ages.

Lots of limos, horse drawn carriages, helicopters etc where we are but I'm sure plenty walkers/got lifts too. I'd park down street so he can walk in.

Limos for proms in UK aren't a new thing I got a limo to bothy proms at (end of year 11 then end of sixth form), and I am 35 now so this was quite some time ago.

1 plenty of people arrived in normal cars

1. My mum and dad had nothing to do with the limos, it was organised as a group of friends, I was working Saturday jobs or paper rounds at this point and paid for my share myself.

My mum I think did contribute to my dresses but they were not majorly expensive (think the first one was from TK max)

My daughter will be going to prom next week in our Zafira.

All her friends are being driven by parents as well.

There were a lot of fancy hired cars at DD's Prom last week. Thankfully though there were also plenty of normal cars and kids that just walked there.

I think it's getting ridiculous to be honest. The expectations for spending on new clothes, hair and makeup, fancy transport etc, etc. It's just a school disco for goodness sake.

DD has ASD and thankfully had no real interest in any if that.

Ds was dropped off in the car, I picked up a couple of his mates on the way.

It was called prom, but essentially it was a leavers do. Meal and dance. Thankfully no limos, no parents hanging about, no cheers on arrivals. Just dropped off in car park and joined their friends hanging about at the coaches that were taking them to the venue where they has a great night.