An enchanted evening is exactly what BBHHS students can expect April 25, 2026 from 6 to 10 P.M.. This year’s magical night will take place at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and tickets will cost $100 per student.
These tickets are only on sale from March 3 to April 3, but the memories this event will make will last a lifetime.
Music, food, and venue are all the essentials of prom and the quality of them determines the overall quality of the event. Students and staff alike are working hard behind the scenes to make this prom one to remember.
Junior Landon Mroczka on the prom planning committee says “A good prom has certain areas for everyone to be in so that not everybody’s on the dance floor at once, or trying to walk through the dance floor to get to another part, which is really helped by our venue.”
In the past four years BBH prom has had its fair share of venues, the Rock Hall, the Music Box Supper Club, and now the Natural History Museum.
“It is a new venue, and it is our size, and it is newly renovated, so the space is really kind of neat,” adds prom advisor Jessica Harnist. “It’s big, it’s open, and even though its the history museum the space feels kind of modern and kind of fresh.”
The venue is not only the determining factor of where the event takes place, but it also often plays into what the event is based around.
“A theme is very necessary for any part. You can’t have a party without a theme because all the decorations are set around that, the music is set around that, the vibe of the event is set around that,” says Mroczka.
With some back and forth the planning committee decided on something that can easily be enjoyed by everyone and even plays into the atmosphere of the natural history museum.
Another junior on the planning committee, Nicki Toth, says “We ended up making it [the theme] more geared toward the venue. It’s at the natural history museum this year so we wanted to make it more nature themed and historical which is why we ended up with Enchanted Garden.”
In addition to this the excitement had the school obsessed with their very own dinosaur hunt. For a little over a school day there were three small dinosaur figurines hidden throughout the school which if they were found by a junior or senior they could report back to Harnist, earning their very own free prom ticket.
This encouraged kids to get involved within the school and excited about the upcoming event, all while staying on theme.
While not everyone is a big fan of dancing, the music is many student’s main concern. Who is the DJ? What music will they play? Do they take requests?
“I tell everyone, within the past 19 years I’ve been here, whether it’s homecoming, winter formal, nobody likes the DJ, and the DJs know,” says Harnist.
It’s nothing personal, after all it is difficult to please hundreds of angsty teenagers.
To make this upset less prominent the planning committee often sends out a song request form prior to the dance via email in order to give students a better chance of having their favorite, school appropriate, songs played. While this doesn’t guarantee the DJ will play these songs, it at least gives everyone hope.
“For the DJ, hopefully we can get him to play older songs, because in my opinion, and a lot of other people’s opinions, being able to bump it to a song that everybody knows rather than just one beat over and over and over [is better],” says Mroczka. “I feel like if we got ‘Boom Clap’ at the prom, everybody would be on their toes.”
According to Harnist “the DJ is the same DJ we’ve been using for the past handful of proms” so students can look forward to a familiar face behind the turn table.
While food details aren’t fully decided at the moment no one needs to worry about any dietary restrictions, or grabbing a special meal before the dance.
“For food I try to make sure with the caterer it’s a variety of food,” says Harnist. “If it’s a plated dinner like we do at the Rock Hall the juniors that are on the prom committee have a say in picking the food. This year again it’s stations so we’ll have a variety of different stations, we make sure we have some meats, some meatless, and all kinds of things, and the caterers too, if they have some kind of dietary restrictions they are able to make someone a special plate.”
For any questions regarding Prom students are welcome to email Harnist at [email protected] or refer to the Prom Info and Rules document.
Don’t forget to buy a ticket available at Hometown Ticketing up until April 3, and just remember Toth’s advice, “If you’re with a good group of people you can make anything fun.”
