A.C. Flora senior ‘promposes’ on Lizard’s Thicket restaurant sign

There was no ring, no dropping to one knee and no tears. But she said yes – to the prom.

A.C. Flora High School senior Wells Williams popped the question to his friend Holland Hufstetler this week in a big way.

After Holland’s lacrosse game Wednesday night, she and her friends met Wells for a bite to eat at Lizard’s Thicket. But when their car pulled up to the restaurant on Beltline Boulevard in Columbia, Holland’s friend pointed to the sign outside the restaurant, and she couldn’t help but laugh.

Wells, whose family owns the restaurant chain, was sitting on the ledge of the sign that read, “Holland will you go to prom with me – Wells.”

“It was a big surprise,” said Holland, a junior at Flora, who was already pretty sure Wells would ask her to the dance. “Over this school year, we’ve started hanging out more, and we’ve become really close friends.”

Extravagant prom proposals, or “promposals,” like Wells’ are an increasingly popular trend among high schoolers.

One of Wells’ friends dressed up in a lion costume and paraded through the school’s cafeteria courtyard with a sign that read something along the lines of “I’d be lion if I said I didn’t want to go to prom with you,” he said.

“I wanted to do something kind of big for my senior year prom,” Wells said.

Holland and Wells, both 17, plan go to dinner and the prom with a group of friends in April. (But, Wells said, they won’t be eating at the meat-and-three Lizard’s Thicket.)

This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM with the headline "A.C. Flora senior ‘promposes’ on Lizard’s Thicket restaurant sign."