<p>D went to her jr prom last night. Seemed to go well other than the flowers her date bought for her velcro to her wrist, and the velcro repeatedly snagged on her dress, causing numerous runs in the chiffon. Never occurred to me when I watched him deftly apply it to her wrist that it would be a problem with the dress. </p>
<p>So if your kid hasn’t yet had prom, and there is going to be a wrist corsage, suggest that it NOT be applied with velcro, despite the convenience of it.</p>
<p>Wondering if there’s a way I could bring that to the attention of flower shops…</p>
<p>That’s a shame. I ruined a beautiful blouse I wore to my Ds graduation with the cast on my wrist. Same thing, kept catching on the fabric. Never dawned on me as I dressed. :(</p>
<p>My Ds are long past the prom stage but I’ve never seen a wrist corsage with velcro. The ones that we had for grandmothers/greatgrandmothers/aunts at my Ds’ weddings were attached to a beaded/jeweled bracelet type device that stretched to fit each wrist with elastic (fine elastic strips wound through the beads/jewels) and the flowers attached to the bracelets with that green florist ‘tape’ that the stems are wrapped in. We didn’t have any dress mishaps. Sorry to hear about your D’s dress.</p>
<p>That’s good to know (about the velcro). Out local florist uses a “stretchy band” that she wraps with the ribbon to match the wrist corsage. I’ll have to mention to S3 to keep using the same floral shop. Velcro is probably less expensive and less labor intensive.</p>
<p>Thanks for the caution. We live outside of US, florist here do no make corsages. D2 goes to an international school, they have prom for the seniors. I want to make it special for D2, so I have contacted 5+ florists here to see if they could make a corsage for D2. I finally found one who would do it. Just emailed them about not using velcro.</p>
<p>I hate velcro on anything not sports or child clothes related</p>
<p>Can’t imagine a florest thinking it was a swell idea</p>
<p>Somehow decades of women delta with old school wrist corsages, why the need to always feel the need to “improve”</p>
<p>On the subject of ruining prom dresses, my D’s senior year the planners (junior class students/parents) decided to feature a chocolate fountain as part of the refreshments. Needless to say, my D dripped chocolate all over her dress, not to mention the chocolate that got on the floor and the hems that were dragged through it. Luckily, the dry cleaner was able to get the chocolate out, but I’m not sure about the other girls’ dresses. So…no velcro and no chocolate.</p>
<p>DD had a stretchy band that was covered in “pearls” for her band. It was nice because they were smooth. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen velcro for a wrist corsage before.</p>
<p>Musicmom–a chocolate fountain–REALLY?? My cousin decided that we needed to have a chocolate fountain at our oldest son’s grad party-um, thanks, what a MESS. NEVER again.</p>
<p>They had the chocolate fountain at dd prom last year. Dd had enough sense to stay away because she had experience the chocolate mess at another function.</p>
<p>We had a chocolate fountain for a family function for one of Ds ecs. I don’t remember a
mess and we had little kids runnIng around. Perhaps it was the design of the fountain?
Ds corsage had a ribbon, but she took it off to dance & some one grabbed it or it got tossed.
Perhaps one that was pinned would work better.</p>