Her photo studio is hosting the women-only dance (for ages 21 and older) from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $30. Proceeds benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.
The only men will be cutout posters of celebs like Robert Pattinson, “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson and Johnny Depp in Jack Sparrow glory.
It’s an opportunity to pull out those old prom, wedding and bridesmaid’s dresses.
Posey suspects most women have a dress that would work hanging in a closet or locked away in a trunk.
“It doesn’t matter that they are tacky; it has a good memory attached to it,” she said, explaining why a woman would keep a dress that has out-lived its fashion trend.
You don’t have to be a mom to attend the prom.
There will be dancing, appetizers, drinks, photos, raffle prize drawings and a tacky-dress contest.
Someone is going to be crowned queen.
The Mom Prom was created in Michigan in 2006 as a ladies night out for charity.
The local event was the brainchild of Crystel Henson of Beavercreek, Posey’s “cousin-in-law,” as a way to raise money for diabetes research.
Her now 10-year-old son Zacharie was diagnosed with the life-threatening disease when he was 6 and in kindergarten.
Henson said her son just didn’t look right.
“He looked different to me, like he had lost weight,” she recalled. “He was drinking a lot and sweating a lot.”
Soon after, Henson took her son to his pediatrician, who almost immediately told her to take him to the emergency room.
“They said if I had waited any longer, he would have gone into a coma,” Henson said.
Zacharie is now insulin-dependent and needs injections several times a day.
Every year since the diagnosis, his mom has planned an event to raise money for juvenile diabetes. A few years back, Crystel Henson and her husband raised $1,000 raffling Bengals’ tickets.
“The more money we raise, the more research they can do,” she said. Crystel Henson will wear a bridesmaid dress from about 6 years ago to the prom. She had tried to sell it on Craigslist.com.
“Nobody really wanted to buy,” she recalled with a slight laugh.
The Mom Prom is the perfect opportunity do something fun for a good cause, she said.
Do you have a fashionable event? Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2384 or arobinson@DaytonDaily News.com.
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