Sweet Prom Proposal

Upper Southampton resident and Archbishop Wood student, Stephen Smith, needed a creative way to ask his 16-year-old girlfriend, Madisyn Speckhart, to his junior prom.

His idea: post it on a sign at the popular Dairy Queen for everyone to see.

Stephen approached his boss at , Ed Moran, and asked if he could use the store’s outdoor sign to ask his girlfriend of four years to prom. Ed quickly said, “absolutely,” the high-schooler recalls.

Thursday, 17-year-old Stephen put the message - “Madisyn...Prom?...Love Stephen” - on the sign.

Hours later, on Friday afternoon, Stephen took Madisyn to Dairy Queen before going to the movies. She saw the sign and said yes.

“I was so surprised, “ Madisyn said. “I wasn’t expecting it at all.”

Stephen said he asked Madisyn to prom in a public fashion because after dating for several years, both of them already knew they were going with each other but he still wanted to make it memorable.

Stephen’s mother, Maria, called the creative prom proposal a “great idea.”

“To be honest, I didn’t know he had it in him,” she said with a smile.

Ironically, Madisyn, a junior at William Tennent, had asked Stephen to her prom in the form of a small scavenger hunt that lead to a sign with the message: “Prom?” As she expected, he said yes.

When Stephen was asked how he is planning to surprise Madisyn when he asked her to senior prom next year, he just grinned.

His mother laughed and said, "one prom at a time!"