Content creator Kit Barrus, 28, says she spent approximately £2,000 attending her childhood best friend's hen party, only to be uninvited from the wedding and blocked, ending their 17-year friendship.
Barrus, who has more than 500,000 followers on Instagram, said she was not a bridesmaid but put considerable effort into helping make the hen party special. Despite her contributions, the event led to the breakdown of the friendship, as she was eventually removed from the wedding guest list.
Spending and Regret
Reflecting on the cost, Barrus said: "Do I feel like I wasted a lot of money? I do, but I try not to dwell on that stuff, because I think lessons are supposed to be learned and you're supposed to be where you're supposed to be."
She added: "So I was like 'yeah, I guess I spent a lot of money on this, and that sucked', but at least I made a bit of content in my hotel room. So it wasn't a full loss, it's fine."
Friendship's End
Barrus described feeling "relieved" that the friendship is now definitively over. "At the end of the day I feel relieved that something so extreme happened that now she can't really re-enter my life. There is no more on-again off-again friendship," she said.
She continued: "It's done and I'm mournful of that because I miss the girl I used to be friends with, but she hasn't been that person for some time, and the current person she is isn't somebody I want to be friends with."
The pair had been friends since primary school and were "really close," though their relationship fluctuated "up and down" during their teenage years. Barrus said they always managed to reconnect, until now.
Final Break
According to Barrus, her friend severed contact after taking offence at a reel she posted contrasting solo and group travel. Following that, she allegedly told Barrus not to bother attending the wedding.
Barrus said she felt "relieved" because she believed her friend was no longer the person she had grown up with. She added: "I got back and I was talking to my other friends and I was like, 'I don't know how to not go to this wedding. I don't want to go to this wedding. This person is horrible. I want nothing to do with her.'"
She concluded: "And then the next day she uninvited me and I literally did a victory lap. I was like, 'Thank god, thank god.'" Barrus now says she has little desire to repair the friendship and is eager to move on.
