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If my school prom had been more like this, maybe I would have gone!
Such gorgeous photos! I really love Petra’s dress, so romantic :)
No.3 looks like how the dress in pretty in pink should have looked before Andie hacked it up
So magical.
beautiful album, fabulous dresses and pictures !! :-) :-) :-) it would be the best thing ever if the next road trip was in the uk *hint hint* xxxx
The shoes and skirts in 17 are adorable! I’m glad everyone seemed to enjoy it so much, hopefully there will be another some time in the future and I will be able to go :)
Definitely has inspired me to put some thought into my prom, which my (British…) School has decided to spring on us :-/ My mind is now buzzing with dress ideas! Hahah:)
Taylor x
Tavi’s hair <3 My school's prom needs to be like this!!
You are ALL beautiful!
PETRA!
Thank you so much for these pictures. I love them! Number 19 is going to be up in our room from now on with our Rookie Week/Strange Magic/BESTWEEKEVER shrine.
And number 17 is now my desktop. It’s funny to be staring at my feet all the time, but it’s just too awesome!
LOVE LOVE LOVE,
Sarah
My school prom was not nearly this magical. Still, I had a great time. If you have the chance, everyone, go. Even if it’s not considered the coolest event. It’s memorable and corny and a bit overhyped, but that’s what makes it so special :)
Picture 14 I looooooove it
These are so beautiful!
side note- I was having an awful day at school. I came home and the Rookie yearbook arrived, and it honestly made my day.
Dear Tavi PLEASE do a hair tutorial omg. My heart is breaking that I couldn’t go to this.
yes Tavi PLEASE
i third this notion pLEASE
Loyally fourthed. PLEASE! :D
wait, rookie needs to run a school for girls, with prom every month. i’d graduate with a major in candy with an emphasis in glitter flower vagina art.
Did you thrift your dresses? They are so GREAT! I hope my prom is as amazing as this.
I love these photos! I wish my prom was like this. So lovely and sparkly and pretty and I wish I could have been there!
xo, Tori
seriously, can I have the table of candy?
Everyone is so gorgeous!!! I love Petra’s dress!
can we seriously have a rookie prom?
These are so gorgeous. I want to live inside these pictures
I love these wonderfully magical pictures. My favorites are 4 and 17 :)
can I just say that Rookie will be the reason I fail science.
Also OMG WHY. THIS IS SO AMAZING.
<3
p.s Olivia why does your boyfriend have a fork in his hair?
Homecoming is coming up (heh) and I want to dress like this… but I’m afraid that everyone will think I’m a freak. My school is pretty mainstream.
That first picture is my friend Sophia and me!I can’t even….this was just so much fun.
My tumblr, normyadorescrumpets
Sophia’s, worldsamess
pictures 11 and 14 are me and my friend ruby! they turned out so gorgeous we can’t believe it! aaah i wish i could go back to the best week of my life. thank you petra for these amazing pictures!
Rookie Yearbook One arrived in the mail today!!!!!! It’s so gorgeous. Great work team Rookie! I am sleeping with it under my pillow tonight :)
so beautiful; petra your photography is a thing of wonders. i wish i could have been there!
oh wow! I love prom dresses so much. you guys are all so beautiful.
So preeeetty!
Also, who’s sequined jacket is that because I am going to your house and sneakily steal it mwahaha or you can tell me where you got it.
Found this when it was on Jimmy Fallon.
Such great photos – I especially love n 17.
Everyone just looks so super awesome!
these are wonderful and beautiful.
Wonderful as usually :)
But there’s one thing that bothers me: am I right that Rookie is kinda sponsored by Urban Outfitters?
Because i don’t find their ‘eat less’ and Jewish star t-shirts (with a little bit of searching on the internet i could probably make that list longer) very tactful and when i saw conversation about it on Tumblr there wasn’t much of a responds from Rookie-girls…
Are these Urban Outfit controversial actions like the new taboo?!
Our road trip this summer was a sponsored by Urban Outfitters, not our company/site. I don’t find those T-shirts very tactful either and if I’m not mistaken the company pulled them from their stores.
this is perfect.
this is what every prom should be like! its so perfect i wish mine was like that haha
If you do the Rookie road trip again, I hope you switch it up and start in L.A. and end in New York City so people on the East Coast can do this stuff too!
OHMYGOD YES
I WOULD SO MUCH RATHER GO TO A ROOKIE PROM THAN MY SCHOOL’S PROM
number 4, TAVI AND PETRA HOW DO YOU LOOK THIS GOOD??? I know we’ve had a vintage prom dress article, but how about a how to get ready and just extra stuff, because I have my first ever end of school prom coming up this year and I need HELP xoxox
Is it just me or does the girl on the left looks crazily like Grimes?
P.S I here Australia’s pretty good for road trips?
You know, whatever I’m just sayin’… You guys might enjoy it perhaps you know… 2013? Am I being subtle enough?
So so lovely! What camera was Petra using?
I wish I could get a prom like this =)
Gorgeous photos. What a great prom!
This is the epitome of perfect, what i would have given to get there!
– Emily
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