Blood tests.

After a relatively uneventful and not-fully-productive weekend (favors were started, the apartment was cleaned, but no exercise happened), I'm back in weekday wedding mode.

Today I thought I'd talk about blood tests briefly. Some states require them before you get married. I think it's one of those surviving old fashioned rules that was put in place to make sure you didn't pass the plague around. Let me google that to confirm... okay, it seems to be a concern about syphilis and only couple of states still require it. I suppose it was a bit more effective in time periods where premarital sex wasn't common and you wouldn't have passed it on to your future spouse yet. (It's your responsibility to get tested now, before you have sex.)

To find out if your state requires a test, you can look in local wedding magazines or just google it. Ours does not, thank goodness.

The reason this is on my mind is because I had blood drawn last week and there is a giant bruise on my arm. It's barely faded after a week. I can just imagine how great this would look next to a white wedding dress. And especially in the photos. So I have to recommend to brides that have to get blood testing - do it a month or more in advance.

In the meantime - anybody know how to get rid of a bruise?