Formal!

[dzrose93]

Originally posted by AOPiLaLa
Just curious--do you guys ever have problems at formal? We always have people getting kicked out for being to drunk and someones date breaks something. And if one sorority or fraternity does something wrong, the place will no longer rent to any GLO. So, the list gets smaller and smaller where we can go every year.
I am old and alum, but my last formal we had at the Chapel Hill Sheraton and it was really pretty. And we had cups and t-shirts. Semi was at the Burlington Best Western(and it may be there many more times because we broke nothing and were invited back ) and I think it was frames and t-shirts. I LOVED formals--I think they were so much fun!!

I'm old and alum, too, AOPiLala, but I don't recall any of our formals getting rowdy while I was there. No fights that I can remember, and we never had a problem renting out the Holiday Inn ballroom year after year.

The only instance I can think of is a pre-formal that we had at a local bar during my sophomore year. The manager got mad because 4 people (count 'em, FOUR) were tossing peanuts at each other. (They were trying to catch them in their mouths.) He wouldn't let us hold a pre-formal there again because we were too "messy". The whole thing was laughable. The only people who really lost out in the end were the owners of the bar.

It wasn't an extremely popular place. In fact, we only reserved it because the other bars didn't want to close their doors to everyone except us and our dates on a busy Friday night. The place probably made more off of us that night on food and drinks than it would in a normal week! Talk about a bad business move on their part!