I wish I could give this a good review because I don't like leaving poor reviews.  However, we received the umbrella and there is a hard black plastic piece that is screwed into the underside of the base and in our case the screws didn't line up and we haven't been able to assemble it.  UPDATE: Wayfair made the situation better and the Umbrella is now usable so I moved my 1 star to a 4 star.  The base is quite light-weight even as the top is solid and heavy.  YOU DEFINITELY need to order weights for the base and I think they should just be sold together with the Umbrella as we didn't realize and now are waiting for the base weights that we ordered separately after putting together the umbrella.  The umbrella is a bit tricky to store but I think it's going to provide much needed shade once we get it up and running!!