I don’t know. I kind of like putting lights on the tree. If I want something different next year, I don’t have to buy a whole new tree.
The real one will be beautiful - and I think your wife will enjoy it. Years and years ago we had our first artificial tree and when we went to take it down one of our lights had melted onto a branch. I felt that had that been a drying real tree it might have caught on fire. So I have never asked for a real tree since.