How to Pick a Date for a Graduation Party

Events after your school's graduation can be an opportunity to share a last laugh with a friend or advance a promising relationship. You can enhance fun and merriment at a graduation party when you pick the right date.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Leave behind the stress of a romantic date by asking a friend or roommate to a graduation party. The pressures of impressing a date and paying attention to one person the entire night can decrease the fun you have at a party.

2. Marshal your courage to ask someone you are interested in to accompany you to a graduation party. Frame your conversation about the date in low-pressure terms to increase the likelihood of landing a date.

3. Speak with friends of your potential date to determine if she has a date for another graduation party. A close friend who is helping plan your desired date's graduation party can give inside information before you make a request.

4. Pass on information about the graduation party to your date as details become available. You should forward emails and ask questions of a party host to give a clear picture to your date of the evening's events.

5. Fulfill your need for company at multiple parties when you pick different individuals for each party. These dates should be casual in nature to avoid jealousy and maximize your enjoyment of graduation activities.

6. Avoid picking a bad date as a surrogate for your significant other by using speaker phone to bring your date from a distance. Keep your significant other on the line as the hosting graduate and close friends approach to engage them in conversation.

7. Remember the fun times of a graduation party by getting plenty of pictures with your date. The presence of cameras at a party puts a premium on finding a date that is willing to take photos throughout the evening.