Hi all. So, our niece is getting married (my husband's side of the family). All of the cousins and grandnieces and grandnephews were invited. The cousins range in age from mid thirties down to babies. Our two children, ages 18 and 15 were not invited. Our children were the only cousins not invited.
My husband was married previously and those children were invited. Our two children were not.
My husband has a good relationship with his niece and is very close with his niece's father (my husband's brother). I guess that is what stings him the most.
My question is, what to do? Obviously, our children were singled out. Children from ages 1 to age 5 will be attending, so it isn't that children weren't invited. Our children were excluded when all others were invited. Obviously, this taints our relationship with the couple. Do we simply not go? Do we go and just try to ignore that we are the only family attending who wasn't allowed to attend as a family? It is a same sex wedding and excluding two family members when all others were invited seems mean and exclusionary.
Are we wrong to think that the couple is sending us a "message" that they don't want us to attend?
I struggled with what group to post this to-- maybe this belongs under "family and relationships"?