Garden Buckets

I searched all over to find these flowers!  Seriously.  I had planned to do garden roses, peonys and hydrangeas but I was storing these small pink mums in the buckets one day and I thought that these were perfect.  I bought the 11 bushes that the Michael's in Denton had.  I had planned to buy out the Lewisville store too, but I ran in to  a slight road block.  They had none and the sales associate told me that the flowers were being discontinued due to it being a seasonal item.  Oh no!  I was in panic mode.  I started to call around to all the stores in the metroplex to hold any that they had in the store.  I had a huge feat in front of me; I needed 96 total bushes for these buckets!  But I was up to the challenge!  I called several stores without much luck.  A nice sales associate at the Plano store looked at the invoice list for each store and told me exactly who had some in stock.  That night I went to Frisco, Plano, Addison and Dallas to buy out their merchandise!  It was a long night (took me about 3 1/2 hours round trip) but now I have these beautiful buckets to hang from the pews at the wedding!  They will also serve as the reception table center pieces!