Almost always. You can't transfer real estate without having something in writing. In some situations, a document other than a deed is used -- for example, in a divorce, a court order may transfer real estate from the couple to just one of them. 3.
In the King County metro area, the average wedding tab in 2012 was between $25,091 and $41,819, according to proprietary surveys and government statistics gathered by a market research company called The Wedding Report. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to see more of their wedding stats for the Seattle-Tacoma region.)
Though the average cost of about $31,000 per wedding seems really high, check out the pie chart at this Costofweddings.com link which shows about 30 percent of weddings in the area cost less than $10,000; 30 percent are between $10,000 and $19,999; 21 percent are between $20,000 and $29,999 and 19 percent are $30,000 and up.