Open Mouth, Insert Wedding Dress

I'm very used to making a fool of myself. It's a process that I have become very familiar with over time. No matter how great my intentions are I just open my big mouth and then disaster strikes. Occasionally, if I am really lucky I succeed in embarrassing others as well as myself. And that is just what I did last night at Homegroup.

My sweet Homegroup leader was talking about how she and her boyfriend were everything BUT engaged. As close to being engaged as possible, they've talked about it and he's saving for a ring and whatnot. Well, this was the moment I decided to put my two cents in and share some of my wisdom... A.K.A.- the moment I wished I could be swallowed up into a hole and die.

I told this sweet girl that I had once had a friend who was pre-engaged and had ended up buying her wedding dress and then the couple broke up. So I warned her not to buy a wedding dress before she was engaged. Here's the problem, first of all, it's not polite to tell someone that because some other friend of mine had her pre-engagement cut off she will too and second of all: JUST SHUT UP! Why didn't someone just tell me to shut up? Because what happened next was truly mortifying.

I started to try and backtrack by saying that she didn't seem the type to buy a wedding dress before she was engaged. At which point she explained that she did, in fact, already have a wedding dress because she has been engaged before.

And then I made things so much worse by incredulously asking "Are you going to wear it?"

Yes. Yes, she is.

The sound you hear is my face melting off from embarrassment.