Planning an outdoor wedding is a beautiful dream for many couples. However, Katie Stokes, a 25-year-old bride, recently shared a post on TikTok that highlighted how nature can crash the party when she discovered she was covered in 92 ant bites on her big day. Per PEOPLE, Katie and her now-husband, Chase Stokes, were prepared for the usual suspects associated with an outdoor ceremony in South Georgia. Still, they were mostly focused on keeping gnats at bay.
Katie shared that they stocked up on bug spray, and she was even doused in a specific no-gnat spray before the ceremony. She mentioned that “ants didn’t even cross my mind until it was happening.” It seems that the weather might have played a major role in the chaos, as it rained for about an hour earlier in the afternoon. Katie is pretty sure that the rain is what brought the ants out of the ground, as there were no signs of ants earlier in the day.
