After reading maybe only 10 books since high school, I was a little skeptical that I would actually like a book about vampires. It took a year of my friends recommending and begging me to read Twilight and I still hadn't found the motivation to crack it open and give it a try. Finally one friend actually forced me take her copy home to read it. (Thanks Kate). To my amazement I loved it and couldn't wait to read the next 3 in the series.
When we heard they were making this book into a movie, a friend of mine thought it would be fun to rent out an entire theater to ourselves for our own private viewing of Twilight. No husbands, or Kids allowed!
Normally that would be pretty spendy but I happen to have a friend who manages a theater here in town, so she was able to help us make this happen at a very reasonable rate. We booked our showing for 10am the day the movie was being released, and then the preparations for this fun event really began.
It was lots of fun to put this event together.
Here's the Official Twilight planning committee... Stacey, Kathy, and Jenne.
So I'm a fan but, Kathy and Jenne are HUGE Twilight fans. They made this event memorable and really fun for the 85 women we invited to this private showing.
We wanted to make this a super fun experience for all who attended, so earlier in the week we sent out a quiz to all the people coming to the movie. A little Twilight trivia from Bella. 10 minutes before the movie started we gave out movie prizes to the winners of the quiz. A few of the prizes given out were for... getting the most answers right, read the book the most times, told the most people to read the book, best twilight dressed, best story about having to lie to read the books, 17th person through the door, etc.
We hung memorable quotes from the book all around the theater. Also pictures from the making of the movie to add that special touch.
Here's a few you may have seen hanging on the wall.
Bella, oh I mean Kathy and Edward.
Edward, Jenne, and Emmet hanging out on set.
Me and Edward.
I'm pretty sure he's grabbing my butt. And Ohhh what a nice butt I have, if I do say so myself. So fun!
As for the movie, I really liked it. It was a little corny in some parts but I still enjoyed it. The movie was not as good as the book, but what movie is? It was fun to see all of the characters in the book brought to life and for the most part it was what I had envisioned. I would recommend reading the book before seeing the movie. I liked it enough that I would probably go see it again if someone invited me.
It was a blast taking a morning off from my normal routine to hang out with friends, and act like a teenager again.
All in all.....It was totally fun, and the memories made doing this little Twilight Movie Day will be sticking with me for many "new moons" to come. :)
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