"Breaking Dawn" Image Gallery

Below is a selection of images from the "Breaking Dawn" release parties. Click the image to download a high resolution version.

Ecstatic Stephenie Meyer fans eagerly purchase their copies of “Breaking Dawn” at the Borders store at 2 Penn Plaza in New York City. A few hours prior to the book officially going on sale at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 2., up to 1,000 fans flocked to the store to celebrate the book’s release, participating in a host of fun activities including debates, costume contests, and trivia challenges.

Excited fans who attended the “Breaking Dawn” release party at the Borders store at 2 Penn Plaza in New York City debate who “Twilight” series heroine Bella should choose for her true love – vampire Edward or werewolf Jacob.

The “Breaking Dawn” Graffiti Wall at the Borders store at 2 Penn Plaza in New York City is packed with thoughts, predictions and messages from Stephenie Meyer fans who had a lot to say about Bella, Edward, Jacob and their friends from Forks, Wash.

“Undead Makeovers” were part of the many activities excited fans of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series enjoyed during the lively “Breaking Dawn” midnight release party at the Borders store at 2 Penn Plaza in New York City.

Decked out in homemade t-shirts, Stephenie Meyer fans attending the “Breaking Dawn” release party at the Borders store at 3700 Torrance Blvd in Torrance, Calif. watch as another fan “walks a line” while balancing a book from the “Twilight” saga on his/her head. The winner of the contest secured one of the first places in line to purchase a copy of “Breaking Dawn” when the book officially went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 2.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Stephenie Meyer fans descended upon the Borders store in Torrance, Calif for an evening of “thirst quenching” fun at the “Breaking Dawn” midnight release party.

Smiles abound at the Borders’ “Breaking Dawn” release party in Torrance, Calif. as elated fans snag the first copies of the highly anticipated book, the fourth and final book in the “Twilight” saga by author Stephenie Meyer.

Customers at the “Breaking Dawn” release party in Torrance, Calif. – and at more than 900 other parties at Borders and Waldenbooks stores nationwide – happily discovered they could also purchase the Borders exclusive “Twilight” Movie Calendar, a full-color 2009 calendar featuring 13 gorgeous color photos – many of them movie stills – of Bella, Edward and their friends from Forks, Wash.

Just minutes after snapping up their copies of “Breaking Dawn,” fans at the Borders store in Torrance, Calif. couldn’t wait to break open the final installment in the “Twilight” saga by Stephenie Meyer.

Stephenie Meyer fans decked out in full “Twilight” regalia eagerly await the release of “Breaking Dawn” at the Borders in LaGrange, Ill. They are among hundreds of fans who flocked to the store for the “Breaking Dawn” midnight release party, where they enjoyed a host of activities including debates, trivia challenges, costume contests and bloody vampire drinks – sno-cones with red dye.