It costs somewhere between $20-$200 to get married. ($20-$50 to file the paperwork plus whatever the officiant chooses to charge ($0-$150(?) - mine charged $100

It costs somewhere between $20-$200 to get married. ($20-$50 to file the paperwork plus whatever the officiant chooses to charge ($0-$150(?) - mine charged $100). It costs more than that to hire a lawyer to create a series of legal contracts. If you want to make it "file one series of standard contracts together which are stored at the courthouse" then you're just back to civil marriage.