The stand it comes with is huge, very flimsy and made of plastic. You have to buy a bunch of sand to fill it with and once it's filled you'll never be able to move it due to the cheap, flimsy stand because it will break. I can't use it where I intended to because the pole is way too big for the existing hole in my glass table. It's $40.00 to ship it back, so I decided to keep it and try to figure out what to do with it.