debs; paying a year in advance

golden gal · 13-11-2005 8:16pm #1

hey,
last week at my school we were approached by the debs committee for deposits for our debs.
its next september for cryin out loud! i know they need to book it in advance, but a year??? and your expected to know who your going with!iv been with my boyfriend for nearly two months and adore him but he is in a different school. and so im stuck wondering should i get tickets for the two of us? i mean lets say we break up by next september (god forbid!!) and i go with someone from my school, thats e75 down the drain. we have till january to finalise our tickets but that leaves a whole summer not to mention the leaving cert to go through.who knows what could happen between january and september?

what do ye all think?
*golden gal*

Dagnir Glaurung · 13-11-2005 8:38pm

Yes, you need to book now to get anywhere decent and that requires a deposit. And if you've split up with your boyfriend by then, I'd be happy to go as long with you.

deisedolly · 13-11-2005 8:55pm

We arranged ours last month. It has to be arranged early to get the hotel and dates you want. You could be stuck having your debs in late september or in some ****e hotel if you don't book early!

golden gal · 13-11-2005 8:58pm

true but the conformation of the tickets should be given more freedom timewise. surely you could book the hotel now but confirm the number of guests a good while later

johnny_ultimate · 13-11-2005 8:59pm

Yep we had to pay our deposits already. Gives nearly a year to work on dates though

astrofool · 13-11-2005 9:01pm

because you need a deposit to book a hotel.....

golden gal · 13-11-2005 9:02pm

we can schedule interviews i spose. "in ten words or less why would you be the perfect debs date?"

ger85 · 13-11-2005 9:08pm

if its a big school and they are trying to get the best(most expensive places) then i suppose u would have to pay deposit now; as for they need to know who yer bringing- that sounds like a load crap2me. its a year away- who knows who ur going with.
tel them ur going with ur fella, then if u happen to not be going- and they trouble u at the door tell them he was sick and couldnt go and yer bringing mr.whoever instead. if they have a problem with that- they dont deserve ur busniess- go to the local and get twisted. gluck anway

Funkstard · 13-11-2005 11:01pm

We're booking ours next week or so, we had the predebs during the midterm so we haven't been able to get around to the debs until now.

As with dates, just buy two tickets, just bring some randomer if you and your boyfriend break up.

CrimE · 14-11-2005 12:08am

Yeah my 80 euro is due soon I think. Its weird the way everyones all excited and talking about an event that isnt happening for a year.

Still, I cant wait

exiot · 15-11-2005 12:46am

CrimE wrote:

Yeah my 80 euro is due soon I think. Its weird the way everyones all excited and talking about an event that isnt happening for a year.

Still, I cant wait

Last debs I was at were fantastic, mouldy drunk just like everyone else. It was mad fun, tux was in a state the next day though..

Cant wait for my own so when they say "Class 2006! NO MORE SCHOOL!" and I will be cheering for a reason..

abercrombie · 15-11-2005 11:23pm

we've already booked ours! predebs coming up soon too

deisedolly · 15-11-2005 11:44pm

What da f*ck is a predebs?! That some sorta rich kid party or what?!

Scarinae · 16-11-2005 4:25pm

A predebs is basically just a night out for your year, it's not black tie like the debs and there isn't a meal or anything. Just an opportunity for your whole year to go out to a rented club. Ours was in January of 6th year. I don't think it's just a private schools thing, though my boyfriend is from Kerry and he says that it's an unheard of thing down there

abercrombie · 16-11-2005 5:08pm

Fishie wrote:

A predebs is basically just a night out for your year, it's not black tie like the debs and there isn't a meal or anything. Just an opportunity for your whole year to go out to a rented club. Ours was in January of 6th year. I don't think it's just a private schools thing, though my boyfriend is from Kerry and he says that it's an unheard of thing down there

I think it's really only a dublin thing or something...when I was in french college and we were talking about our predebs and debs to people from the country and they hadn't a clue what we were talking about

Funkstard · 16-11-2005 5:14pm

We had our predebs during the midterm. I went to two in two nights, I couldn't drink at the second one!

It's just renting a function room/club and the whole year going with dates. We didn't even tell our school about it. Also, we had to keep the venue secret to keep prying parents away, and had to say it was a going away party so we could hire the place! They were absolutely brilliant nights

I think it is a Dublin only thing pretty much, my cousin from Clonmel hadn't a clue what I was talking about

caesar · 16-11-2005 5:19pm

abercrombie wrote:

I think it's really only a dublin thing or something...when I was in french college and we were talking about our predebs and debs to people from the country and they hadn't a clue what we were talking about

Thats because you were speaking french:D
I'm from the country(see location) and we don't have a pre debs so its probably just a Dublin thing. I'm just wondering is there only one French college in the country?

abercrombie · 16-11-2005 5:35pm

caesar wrote:

Thats because you were speaking french:D
I'm from the country(see location) and we don't have a pre debs so its probably just a Dublin thing. I'm just wondering is there only one French college in the country?

Well you see i was working there so i was allowed to speak english to the other assitants and animators when students weren't there and most of them were from the country too. nope there's french colleges all over the country - they change from year to year though! There's a Junior one in Limerick and several senior ones...in roscrea, kildare (clongowes), ennis...and some other ones i think

katiegordon · 16-11-2005 11:58pm

i g o to school in dublin but i never heard of a predebs???

abercrombie · 17-11-2005 4:04pm

katiegordon wrote:

i g o to school in dublin but i never heard of a predebs???

seriously...what part to you live in do you mind me asking??

katiegordon · 17-11-2005 11:40pm

templeogue.i go to school in crumlin though.i was asking my friends and they havent either!!!

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 18-11-2005 2:39am

Debs are fscking brilliant. End of.

Awfully, awfully expensive.

But brilliant.

abercrombie · 18-11-2005 10:58am

katiegordon wrote:

templeogue.i go to school in crumlin though.i was asking my friends and they havent either!!!

i don't know...

and yes bob, debs are brilliant! I know some people who have started to look for dresses already...me, i've only just got my outfit for my predebs!!

I was thinking, could it be just a private school thing?? I'm probably wrong

Scarinae · 18-11-2005 2:47pm

abercrombie wrote:

I know some people who have started to look for dresses already...

What?! I got mine about two weeks before the debs which I admit was really cutting it a bit fine, but it was a perfect dress for me. Oh and really weird, I was flicking through a copy of the magazine 'Image' last night in the house where I babysit and found myself looking at a whole page of photos from my own debs! Weird or what?! I wasn't photographed but a couple of my friends were, it was so weird

katiegordon · 18-11-2005 4:51pm

abercrombie wrote:

I was thinking, could it be just a private school thing?? I'm probably wrong

Id say thats it, cause my schools faar from private!!

Setun · 22-11-2005 8:02pm

We've booked ours a while ago, goin to Leopardstown. Just payed the deposit a few weeks back. Where's everyone else going?

Funkstard · 22-11-2005 9:02pm

We're booking ours for the Pavilion in Leopardstown, is that where you are Daddio? It sounds great, they serve until 5am or something ridiculous

deisedolly · 22-11-2005 11:57pm

Nice for the ching chingers to be able to have two debss isn't it? Us poor commoners only get one :-(

Scarinae · 23-11-2005 5:41pm

The pre debs isn't a debs, it is just a night out in a rented club. Often they are to raise money for the actual debs, it's not blacktie or anything. The Pavilion in Leopardstown is ok, that's where we had our debs this year, avoid the breakfast rolls like the plague however because they are disgusting! It just ended up as a food fight because nobody in their right mind would have eaten them. Also, getting a taxi afterwards is near impossible - be prepared! Either organise a lift home or arrange for a taxi to collect you beforehand, or else say feck breakfast and go call one before everyone else starts - the first few got taxis but after a while all the companies were saying "Feck off, we're not going all the way out to Leopardstown!"

(we got a taxi - yay!)

abercrombie · 23-11-2005 6:59pm

deisedolly wrote:

Nice for the ching chingers to be able to have two debss isn't it? Us poor commoners only get one :-(

it isn't a debs!!

i know people that don't even have a debs in their school...sucks for them!

lost_soul · 24-11-2005 11:24pm

Im from the country (mayo) and we have a pre-debs thing. Its called the Grad-Night though. It used to be just a drinking disco but for the past two years it had turned into a four-course meal type thing!!! and then we have the debs on top of that.

Dress code Boys: Shirt and jeans
Girls: Well we trust them to dress themselfs!!

I have never heard of any other school that does it our way having two meals. I wouldn't mind but were not even a private school! i no there is a school near us who have a 6th year christmas party!

debs; paying a year in advance

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