debs; paying a year in advance

golden gal

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

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

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

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

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

astrofool

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

golden gal

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

ger85

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

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

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

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

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

deisedolly

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

Scarinae

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

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

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

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

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

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

abercrombie

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

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

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Debs are fscking brilliant. End of.

Awfully, awfully expensive.

But brilliant.

abercrombie

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

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

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

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

Funkstard

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

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

Scarinae

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

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

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!

Scarinae

lost_soul wrote:

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!

That sounds pretty cool actually, I wouldn't mind if our school had done something like that!

Setun

Funkstard wrote:

they serve until 5am or something ridiculous

Hurrah! 'twil be an excellent night.

Scarinae

Funkstard wrote:

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

Um well my debs was there this year and they served until 2.30 or something, after that they'd still give you water but they weren't selling alcohol or anything. They served breakfast at 5.30 or so

Funkstard

Oh really? Well we'll just buy a rake of cans and present them at 2:30 so. What's a debs like at the Pav? I've heard good things so far...

Setun

I've heard good myself, this event organiser guy brought me and my mate out to have a look at the place and afterwards we were thinkin "we gotta go there". It looks the business, and they put on a good show too.

Scarinae

As far as I remember they were checking people for alcohol... Didn't bother checking me cos my bag was so little not even one can would have fitted into it, but I think they checked the guys. The debs was great actually and if you're a smoker don't worry there's a big outside area you can go wander out into to smoke or get some fresh air or whatever. Ummm... I'm not really sure what to tell you about it though! If you have any questions that's fine but I'm really bad at knowing which bits people want to know

Funkstard

Well we're going over there in a week or two to get the place shown to us. Apparently Jury's & the Berkely Court etc. all kick you out at 3am or so, this is great because it's music until 5:30, then the plan is to wander back to our school and have the annual drunken rampage around the place.

ratboy

what school are you from by the way, i've got mine in leopardstown aswell.