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Christian McCaffrey saved Olivia Culpo from a wardrobe malfunction at their engagement party after her dress ripped

Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo attend the NFL Honors at Symphony Hall in February 2023.
Christian McCaffrey fixed Olivia Culpo's wardrobe crisis. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
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Christian McCaffrey came to the rescue when a wardrobe malfunction threatened to ruin Olivia Culpo's engagement party look.

On Sunday, McCaffrey, 27, and Culpo, 31, celebrated their engagement with an all-white themed party in Rhode Island, as the model documented in two "get ready with me" videos on TikTok.

The football player and former Miss Universe started dating in 2019 and have been engaged since April.

Culpo wore a minidress from Vivienne Westwood to the event. The skirt had an asymmetrical hem, while the spaghetti straps were adorned with floral appliqué. 

As she showed in her Tiktok video, McCaffrey zipped Culpo into the form-fitting dress, which she called "a Christmas miracle."

"This is the world's absolute tightest dress of all time," she said as McCaffrey helped her into the dress. "I need literally a professional." 

But just after she showed off McCaffrey's handiwork, Culpo's video cut to another clip where the zipper had split, and she wasn't sure it could be fixed before the party, she explained in the video. 

"The dress just broke," she said, as McCaffrey smiled behind her as he tried to hold the dress together. "We need to pray to God."

But in the next clip, the dress was zipped again thanks to McCaffrey.

"I would just like to thank my damage-control team for fixing the broken dress," Culpo said as McCaffrey flashed a thumbs up at the camera. 

Culpo thanked McCaffrey for his help with her wardrobe snafu as she complimented his outfit at the end of the video.

"He looks absolutely wonderful. My husband is phenomenal, and he fixed my dress," she said. "He's a jack of all trades."

Culpo also shared footage from the party, which took place in a tent decorated with flowers, on Instagram and TikTok. Guests played with sparklers on the dance floor as they celebrated the bride and groom-to-be. 

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Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn is a Senior Lifestyle Reporter at Business Insider with more than eight years of experience in the lifestyle space.At Business Insider, Samantha's coverage focuses on unique living situations, interior design, celebrity style, and books. Her work includes features on multigenerational living and one-of-a-kind houses, timely articles on celebrity fashion, live coverage of award shows and pageants, and fun pieces about popular book series. Samantha also loves reporting on celebrities on her beats, from HGTV stars Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa to authors such as Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.Samantha appeared on Scripps News and CBS in 2022 to discuss the royal family, and in 2023, she won an Anthem Award for her work on Business Insider's package "Better Me."Samantha received her B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College in 2017, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She later earned her M.S. in Publishing from New York University in 2019. Samantha was previously a staff writer at Romper, and her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mic, and Oprah.com. Today, Samantha lives in Atlanta with her husband and dog.Email her at sgrindell@bjinnox.com and follow her on X.