A bride-to-be was left spiraling after waking on her wedding day to find her face covered in mosquito bites.

Auja Singh, 26, had traveled from Indiana to Mallorca, Spain, with her fiancé 30-year-old Nikhi and nine of their closest friends for an intimate wedding destination.

The couple were set to marry at Bodega Son Puig, a vineyard featuring a historic chapel that dates back to the 1100s.

“Leading up to the wedding, I was feeling full of excitement and the upmost gratitude,” Auja told Newsweek. “We were the third couple ever to get married in the chapel."

But the night before the wedding took an unexpected turn.

Staying in a mountain-top villa, Auja and Nikhi struggled with the heat. Air conditioning in Europe is often limited, and after pushing it too low, the unit stopped working entirely.

“We filled up two buckets of water in an hour,” Auja said. With temperatures rising, they made the decision to sleep with the doors open—despite her reservations about bugs.

Throughout the night, Auja recalled hearing buzzing noises around her head, but didn’t give it much thought.

By the morning, there were mosquitos swarming the room.

Auja counted more than 20 bites on her face and over 40 on her arms, while Nikhi had even more.

The bride-to-be shared the evidence in a clip on TikTok (@alloutauja) and explained how she was “losing my mind” in the caption.

“When I first saw the bites, I was like, this has to be a joke,” Auja said. “I went into proactive mode. I think I took [about] five allergy pills the first day, covered myself in Benadryl cream, kept ice on myself and went on.”

At first, the bites seemed manageable. But by the wedding morning, they had become “massive, red, swollen and itchy,” Auja said, doubling in size overnight.

Friends attempted to reassure her. “Everyone that was there that week was pretty chill and [said], ‘It’s fine, you’ll still look beautiful.' [They] tried to semi-gas light me into believing they weren’t noticeable, which kind of worked," she said.

Still, Auja adjusted her plans. Having intended to wear minimal makeup, she opted instead for multiple layers of foundation to neutralize the redness. “You couldn’t see them on my face after that,” she said, though the bites remained visible on her arms.

At one point, friends even tried to fashion sleeves out of a spare veil, but ultimately she decided to embrace the situation.

“I ended up just saying forget it... nothing is going to get in the way of my mood and marrying my favorite person,” Auja said. “I took it as a funny blessing as the day was going to be even more memorable.”

Despite the chaotic start—and further mishaps, including a flat tire en route to their reception—the wedding itself was everything she had hoped for.

“Our wedding was... truly a fairytale,” Auja said. “What matters in the end was us getting married.”