Your Blogger Prom committee at the end of the night, exhausted but happy

Blogger Prom 2009 is over. I almost can’t believe it. My fellow prom committee members and I had been working on planning the event for the last couple of months, sending emails back and forth every day, working with sponsors, and countless other little things that made the first Blogger Prom a most-awesome event.

Even though I was working for most of the party, I had a great time — and from the responses we’ve been getting from prom attendees, looks like most people did, too. After reading these posts, I realize I missed out on a lot, but it was all worth it because everyone else enjoyed it so much. Check out some of the party people’s posts:

Kevin Eats
Food Woolf (that’s my denim jacket with the splatter paint and my feet in the black patent leather shoes!)
Uncouth Gormands
EatingLA
LA Story
Franklin Avenue
BlogHer
Confessions of a Fat Girl/Other Musings
South Bay Foodies
Nanciful

The committee’s day started around 1:00 p.m., though I didn’t get to the Andaz hotel until 3:00 p.m., which was just about the time we started assembling the 200 gift bags. My entire body was sore from all the lifting, squatting and stuffing we did, but it was all worth it for the pretty-darn-amazing-if-I-do-say-so-myself gift bags. We finished just in the nick of time to get ourselves into our party outfits (I was still applying make up when the party officially started!).

Gift bags galore

Anyway, like I said, I didn’t get to try out everything at the prom nor did I get as many photos as I would have liked. So here’s what I got. If you went to Blogger Prom, please add to the Blogger Prom Flickr group!

Meeting and mingling

Food buffet, courtesy of Andaz's RH

Food! So. Good.

Pauly Shore dropped by to hand out the Comedy Store raffle prize

One of the party's signature cocktails, Prom Punch Jungle Juice

Even though I didn’t get to meet everyone I set out to meet, those bloggers I did meet were all so cool. We have a great blogging community here in Los Angeles!

A huge thank you to Blogger Prom’s sponsors, including Andaz and RH restaurant; the Cheese Impresario for the amazing cheese; Martin Miller’s gin, Pinky Vodka, Rosangel tequila, Newcastle beer and Fresh & Easy wine for the booze; Jonathan Fong for the totally tubular floral arrangements; DJ WMDeez for the bodacious tunes; and Pure cheesecakes and PolkaTots cupcakes for the dessert (I didn’t even see the cupcakes until I looked at the Flickr photos!). And much thanks to our raffle prize and gift bag sponsors for providing memorable take-home goodies.

Me and my lovely date, Chris...

...who got us these super-cute and totally awesome corsages!

So if you’re attending, you’ll have lots of great (and free!) food, drink and take-home goodies to look forward to, all to be enjoyed in the chic setting of the Andaz’s rooftop with its killer views.

You’ll be enjoying bites from the hotel’s restaurant, RH, and desserts from Polkatots cupcakes and Pure cheesecakes. We’re also giving you our own signature cocktails designed by prom committee member Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, aka The Liquid Muse, using liquor sponsors Pinky vodka and Rosangel tequila. We’ve got Martin Miller’s gin, Newcastle’s brand-new DraughtKegs, and wines provided by Fresh & Easy, too.

While you’re enjoying this food and drink, you’ll be able to live blog, stream and tweet by taking advantage of Verizon’s MiFi wireless technology, which creates a personal WiFi cloud for up to five users. Verizon is also providing HP Mini netbooks for us to use, too. Let the geekery commence!

Some of you will also be taking home some awesome raffle prizes — more than 30 in all, which means with 200 guests there are some pretty good odds you’ll be taking one home yourself. There are restaurant gift certificates, including those from Crustacean, Rush Street and Border Grill; other food and drink items, including those from Charles Chocolates, Coffee Bean and Ty Ku Sake; event tickets, including those to The Groundlings, the Comedy Store and ArcLight; and a bunch of other great products, including hair, clothing and video game items. Here’s a full list of the raffle prizes.

And if you don’t score one of these prizes, don’t fret: everyone is going home with a gift bag chock full o’ goodies, including Hungry Card Decks, Extinguishers candy, Hearos and Pretty in Pink earplugs (great for concerts or snoring significant others), Wet personal lubricant (also great for use with significant others…or whatever, we don’t judge), bottles of Pepsi Natural, Sun Chips in compostable bags, and lots of restaurant coupons. There’s a lot more; check out the full list.

And if you have a little too much fun, the Andaz is offering us bloggers a special room rate and RH restaurant credit.

So if you haven’t picked out that perfect outfit yet, get cracking! See you soon!