Not wrong about getting some decent recovery equipment, if you get stuck you certainly want to be able to self recover and don't want it failing at the crucial stage.
What light bars did you get, get cheap ones from ebay?
I got a 24" lightbar fof ebay for about $80 12mths ago and it works great, maybe a little down on power but for the price you cant go wrong. and with the LED technology improving all the time, I don't see much point spending more, if I wanted more light I would have gone HID for sure...