But this year’s Masonic Debutante Ball event had a few parents frustrated at the complicated experience.

Jenny Munro is one such parent. Her daughter, Faith, was among this year’s debutantes.

“My daughter made her debut on Saturday, May 15 and the night turned out to be a really good night, but it is the lead up to the night that I have concerns with,” she said.

She penned her frustrations in a letter to the editor.

This year the Masonic Lodge charged the girls $100 to make their debut.

With two daughters who previously made their debut Ms Munro said they never charged debutantes before.

“When we asked what this money was for, we were given several different reasons for the charge one being they are charging this amount to show the debs that it is a serious thing they are doing; that it is not a muck around thing,” she said.

“I feel if they have had people mess around and be silly previously does not mean all of the young girls and partners are like that.”

“The last reason being it covered the debutante and her partner’s tickets ($70) and the dance instructor and flowers.”

She said organisers should remember the money that a family had to pay out for the night.

“They offered free tickets to the parents of the flower girl and page boy, when the question was asked about why this was happening the mother that asked this question was told because they were under age and needed to be chaperoned,” she said.

Ms Munro said the response this woman gave was all of the girls and most of the boys are under aged so ‘all parents should get free tickets’ or have the $100 charged to the girls “refunded”.

“I have had a son be a page boy and we didn’t get free ticket but the lodge paid for the hire of the suite and gave the children a gift voucher,” she said.

Moree Masonic Lodge Master Andrew Amos declined to comment further than an acknowledgement that the changes were necessary.

“We had to change it for it to be viable for us to do it,” he said. “So we changed it.”