You don\u2019t have to be together in person to have productive Prom Committee meetings. With virtual meeting platforms, like Zoom, you can accomplish the same things as you would in in-person meetings, including looking through Prom catalogs for inspiration, ideas, and product offerings. Instead of requesting a paper Prom catalog for each member of your Prom Committee (although you can do that), consider using our Anderson\u2019s Prom digital catalog<\/a>. It includes everything the printed version does and includes links to the products on our website, so you can choose your products and place your order at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Use online tools, like Google Docs, to keep track of meeting notes, budget information, fundraising ideas, prom theme and favor ideas, and other important information. Make sure everyone on the committee has access to the documents they need, and assign one or two people to update the documents as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you make decisions regarding Prom, you\u2019ll need to get the word out. Instead of traditional methods, like hanging banners<\/a> in school hallways, use your school\u2019s website and social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, to announce your Prom theme and event details. This way, the entire student body will have access to all the information they need for the big night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presenting Prom invitations, selling tickets, and collecting payment can all be done virtually to ensure a safe, \u201cno-contact\u201d experience for both the Prom Committee members and the student body. All of our Prom invitations<\/a> come with envelopes, so you can easily mail them to students using old-fashioned snail mail; or consider sending a virtual e-vite to each student. Use an easy money-collecting platform, like Venmo or Paypal to sell tickets and collect payments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No matter how you\u2019re doing Prom (on-site, off-site, outside), you still want to make sure your students have amazing Prom favors<\/a> to commemorate the event. Instead of handing favors out at the door or putting them at each place setting, like you might do at a traditional Prom, limit the amount of people interacting with the favors (and with each other) by having them shipped directly to students\u2019 homes. Or ship them to the Prom Advisor\u2019s home and have him or her deliver them to students before the big night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.andersons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Virtual-Meeting1.jpg\")
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Utilize Your School\u2019s Website and Social Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Set-up <\/strong>“No Contact” Prom Favor Distribution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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