August 2nd couldn't have come soon enough for me! Jen, JoLynn, Melissa and I all decided to go to the Breaking Dawn party at Barnes and Noble, Friday night so we could be one of the first to get a copy of Breaking Dawn (The 4th and final chapter of the Twilight series). Because Edward and Bella were going to get married, all the book stores decided to make the party a wedding reception with all the usual wedding festivities. There was an ugly bridesmaid competition, pin the tail on Jacob, tossing of the bouquet, pictures with the bride and groom, etc. Our fetish with the Twilight series started last fall when everyone started reading. I couldn't go anywhere without running into a friend who was reading it too. I even made Dan find a bookstore in Orlando, while we were on vacation because I finished new Moon and needed to start Eclipse on the airplane ride home. I dreamt about Edward and Bella for weeks and couldn't get the characters out of my side. I think some of us even wished (not even secretly) that we were vampires. Needless to say many us of were excited about Breaking Dawn. Months before the book was to be released we all put our orders in for a copy. When we found out about the book party we thought it would be fun to go. JoLynn even went to get wristbands for copies of our books the day of the party. Our wrist band numbers were in the six hundreds. The book party was bridesmaid attire; however we decided not to attend in our best dresses, although it was fun to watch everyone else. We knew there would be a lot of crazy fans, but I don't think any of us imagined the kind of fans we would run into at the party. There were both Bella and Alice wanna-be's and some of the ugliest dresses I have ever seen. The actors they hired to play the roles of Edward and Bella, definitely got into their roles. Edward was almost creepy, as he couldn't stop undressing Bella with his eyes. Not to mention the make out sessions which happened quite frequently. Well, we had to get involved in the festivities some how so we decided to be the wedding crashers and get in on the pictures. This was truly fun and we all laughed out loud! As Barnes and Noble closed up the book stores and pushed everyone out the door to get ready to bring all the books out for midnight selling, we decided to walk across Jordan Landing and get a drink somewhere. As we passed Deseret Book we realized that they were also opening at midnight to take advantage of the crazed Stephenie Meyer fans and the line here happened to be much shorter than Barnes and Noble. (There were over 1100 people waiting outside of Barnes and Noble). After all was said and done we waited in the Deseret Book line and we had our copies of breaking Dawn by 12:15 after which we headed home to start reading. It was an eventful evening, full of fantastic people watching, good girlfriends and completely worth it!
No comments:
Post a Comment