Mrs. Flamingo, Montreal, Canada
Age and Occupation: 25, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Nursing Student
Engagement Date: December 2004
Wedding Date: June 21, 2008
Venue: Imperia Hotel (modern chic hotel)
About Me: I am a passionate designer who loves anything pretty. I heart all paper products (eco-friendly of course). My passion revolves around anything considered glamour; vintage and modern. In my free time, I love reading Martha mags, designing jewelry and making a pit-stop at Starbucks for a chai latte. I'm also a chocoholic at heart and my family drools over my homemade truffles.
Super Garter
June 17th, 2008 @ 9:32 am by Mrs. Flamingo
**Mr. Flamingo you cannot read this post** Stop reading NOW!**
Ever since I started planning our wedding, there was one thing I knew I was going to do for my new-husband-to-be. I wanted to make him a custom garter… you know one to his liking. I’ve mentioned before that Mr. Flamingo is a Superman freak. He’s got everything from vintage comic books to statuettes, but one thing he doesn’t have is a Superman garter so I wanted to make one for him.
I wanted to incorporate a Superman logo in the garter somewhere but could not find any logos small enough. I thought of using a patch or even a bracelet charm, but everything was too expensive and not to my liking. Then it hit me, CROCS charms. I went to shoe stores in my area in search of the Superman logo but there were none in sight. So I decided to check on ebay. Luckily ebayer namesrus was selling one. I made an offer and won it for 1.00$ plus 1.95$ shipping.
via Ebay
Now this is a surprise and he won’t know it until it’s time to go under my dress. I even asked the DJ to cue the Superman theme song. It’s going to be so funny!The Superman logo/colors consists of blue, red and yellow. Since the emblem is red and yellow and I wanted something blue, I used red and blue satin ribbon. It was very easy to make and the CROCS charm was perfect.
Here is my super garter:
Are you going to make a custom garter for your husband-to-be?
21 Responses to “Super Garter”
That is the cutest thing. I love your idea.
I’m not sure if I even will have a garter yet. We have not discussed that part. But it’s a good idea to make something special that adds a little touch to it though.
If I did I’d probably do something about climbing since he loves bouldering, or something about the outdoors in general.
that’s so cute! i’m sure he’ll love it!
I’m not usually a garter toss fan, but I am a comic book nerd, and this is a really cool idea. I hope your photographer gets a good shot of Mr. F’s face when he sees it!
We skipped the garter toss, it just wasn’t our thing; but yours is Super cute! I bet your FI is going to be so surprised! I second “mhb” and be sure to get a photo of his face when he sees it!
My FI is a big SD Chargers and Padres fan. So since I’m having two garters, I decided I’d make the toss garter either Chargers or Padres themed - hopefully it’ll make the garter toss a little less painful for the guys since they don’t have to catch something frilly & girly. I ended up going with a Chargers garter:
Then for the actual garter toss, we’re planning on involving a mini football that has the garter wrapped around it to “toss” to the guys. A different and fun twist 
That’s fantastic! I’m making a special garter for my guy as well. Since he’s in the Army, I’m using camouflage material as my garter with some lace. He’ll have a throwaway garter though to give away..but this one is for him to keep.
Are you going to let him toss this garter?
We cut that part out…we no likey!
I forgot to mention that he will be keeping the superman garter. We will be tossing another one 
I love the garter it is super cute!!! We are actually attaching things to my garter to have fun with the guest. We are puting a sock, boxers and maybe something else. Just to make it a bit more interesting. I am not sure if I wanted to get a garter thinking that someone may buy me one for the bridal shower.
If he’s that big of a Superman fan, don’t you think he might get the hint from the title of your post? I’d change it before he sees it.
@Kayleigh: Mr.F is french so he doesnt visit english websites let alone wedding related ones. I wrote the warning at the beginning of the post just to be sure… but as soon as the superman theme will go on, hes bound to figure it out - either way.
Thanks though -
Love the garter. I didn’t make a garter but I bought one off the etsy website Garters by Kristen. My fiance loves the Patriots so I found one and I love it. She was very inexpensive and the quality was high. She sent one that we can keep as well as one we can toss.
Oh I have got to do something like this! If only I could figure out a thing that FH loves like your FH does Superman…
I am so proud of you! This is so excellent!
You should get this Super Girl cami and panty outfit (I actually have the Wonder Woman one myself):
My fiance is a huge Ohio State Buckeye fan and I decided to suprise him as well with an Ohio State garter I also purchased mine from the etsy website Garters by Kristen. I cannot wait to see how excited he gets! I also like the fact that he can keep the one garter and the other one she makes he can toss!
Love the idea…never even thought of it! might have to steal it! hope you don’t mind!
OMG, that is the cutest idea ever!! And the garter itself came out really nice! That charm is PERFECT!
My fiance and I met while attending the same college. So, I am having a toss garter handmade in our school colors with a mini hawk charm (the SJU Hawk is our mascot). I can’t wait for him to see it on our wedding day. He is going to be so surprised!
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