That's a beautiful tree, GwQ! Hope you'll post the new tree when you have it decorated.
As for my JW wife helping - she takes great pride in making sure everything looks good, so she was very happy to assist. We put our cable TV on the non-stop music channel and listened to Christmas songs while decorating the tree. I'm hoping she'll see that Christmas is a time of family togetherness. Heck, I even said that the tree looks so good that maybe we can just leave it up all year ... she didn't object to that idea.