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Originally posted by honeychile
ETA: Yes, I made Joe #1 pay for doing that to me!! A guy friend who was then Pledge Master offered to have "his" pledge class pick up his car, and turn it around (it was parked on a very busy one way street!), but I settled for making him feel guilty for about a month or so.
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Honey, you crack me up!
Seriously, I highly advocate going with a great guy friend or a guy friend of another sister. Every "formal" I went to I always invited my absolute best guy friend from college, and he absolutely loved it (he was non-Greek, too) and he knew a lot of the sisters from hanging out with us or through their dates, whom he was friends with. I also set up one of my Alpha classmates with another guy friend the first formal I went to, and he became one of the "token" ADPi dates for all the formals...he went to every formal that he was at school for (he studied overseas for an entire year, so he missed those formals). Most of the time, the guys will start talking about something random to one another, so we don't even really have to worry about keeping them entertained at all!
Something that our chapter did my senior year (we actually took the idea from another sorority ~ I think it was the KD's!) was called "Get Your Sister A Mister" semi-formal. Each sister wrote down her top three choices for who she'd like to go to formal with, and then another sister was in charge of calling the guy and asking him to go to the formal with their sister Susie (which TOTALLY took the pressure off of asking a guy for yourself, especially for those who were really shy and were asking someone they weren't dating but may have been interested in). No one was to know who their date was (some wound up finding out), and when they walked into the CR the night of the formal, the guys were there with a note around their necks saying "I belong to ______". It was a lot of fun, and we had a great time at that formal!