It’s a lot of work to put lights in this tree but we purposely bought it because it didn’t have lights. The incandescent lights that typically come on trees never seem to last for more than 2 years of use, so we figured we would get an unlit tree and put LED string lights on it ourselves. I will say you need LOTS of them to cover this 10ft tree. We ended up putting over 1600 lights on it, and it looks beautiful