article_snippet.sent: Promposals are the big trend in high school proms as teens think up progressively more outlandish ways to ask each other to the biggest dance of the year.
article_snippet.sent: They are so big, in fact, that students the year will likely spend of a third of They prom budgets on the elaborate new ritual, according to a new survey.
article_snippet.sent: With budgets for outfits, flowers, transportation, food and other sundries at around $1,000 for the average American high schooler, that means most intend to spend $324 on the once-simple query: Will you go to prom with me?
article_snippet.sent: Students the year will likely spend of a third of Students prom budgets on the elaborate new ritual of promposals, according to a survey of 3,000 people conducted by Visa .
article_snippet.sent: That's according to a survey from Visa, which asked 3,000 people aged 18 or older what 3,000 people expected to shell out for the prom and on what.
article_snippet.sent: For a primer on promposals, see previous years' winners of most outrageous (and viral) prom proposals.
article_snippet.sent: It's unclear what the cost of these hockey pucks was, but the average American high schooler could spend over $300 just asking Matthew Ho from Toronto or the average American high schooler date to the yearly dance .
article_snippet.sent: Some students have even rented plane banners to pop the prom question - at a starting cost of $1,000 in the New York area. '
article_snippet.sent: I've been in the business six years, and we had never sold a prom banner before then,' explained Remy Colin of Aerial Messages in Daytona Beach, Florida.
article_snippet.sent: This year, Canadians plan to spend $508 overall on prom of which $151 will be on promposal, compared to $919 overall for U.S. families.
highlights_snippet.sent: Students spend $1,000 a year on prom on average, according to survey from Visa .