Send Us Your Prom Pics

Prom is a magical, wonderful time, a rite of passage into adulthood that you will treasure as you step out into the “real world.” Or so they tell me.

I didn’t go to my prom. It was partially my too-cool-for-school attitude at the time, and partially the fact that I’d seen too many movies like Carrie and Prom Night, in which horrible things happen at the big school dance. “No, you go on,” I said. “Let me know how it goes. Hope you get out alive.”

The joke was on me—nothing awful happened at my school’s prom, and I was left without one of the most important memories of my high school years. (Again, so they tell me.) I’m telling you this story so you learn from my mistake.

Go to your prom. And then tell us about it.

Patch plans to be there for all six of the Montgomery community’s proms this year, and we’re going to deliver a virtual cornucopia of photographic goodness. But we need your help to do it. We’d like to see your pictures from prom, and we’ll gladly feature them alongside the work of our photographers.

The best and most original ones, as chosen by our impartial panel of judges, will get free Patch gear. And by “impartial panel of judges,” I mean me. And by “best and most original,” I mean a photo that makes me laugh, or perfectly captures the spirit of prom.

If we get enough good ones, we’ll put the best of them up for a reader vote. The top pick will get a gift certificate to a local business.

Send your pics to andre.salles@patch.com. Montgomery Patch prom season starts on April 30 with Kaneland High School, continues on May 7 with Oswego High School and Yorkville High School, keeps on trucking on May 13 with East Aurora High School, and wraps up a day later on May 14 with West Aurora High School and Oswego East High School.

We’ll keep this contest going through the end of May, and we’ll add photos to our online gallery as we get them.

Thanks very much, and enjoy your proms!