I decided to give it a go at trying to slowly put the furniture together...It is so hard I probably cursed 25 times for the 45 minutes it took me to put one chair together.  The instructions are fairly clear but the way you have to tighten everything together is very hard and hard on your hands.  My fingers were raw after one chair.  So I got a handyman to do the rest, who also had raw hands when finished so I know its not just me and because I am a woman.  

Now that its together, its beautiful, and fairly (but no overly) comfortable.  The color is fairly true to the picture.  I dont know about the weathering factor, but its suppose to rain next week so we will see, but it seems pretty durable upon first usages.