Asking for a sanity check on a situation with our teenage daughters.
My bride-to-be and I both have 16 year old daughters and they're both in the wedding. They've known each other for many years and were friends at one point. As they've grown older they've begun hanging out in different circles. There is no animosity as far as I know. Her daughter is asking to bring a friend and their family to the wedding. We discussed it and decided that inviting a family just because she wants a friend and didn't add to the ceremony was not the right thing to do.
My wife brought it up to me again last night after a couple of months had passed and I got pretty upset about it and let her know that it's really insulting and hurtful to me that her daughter feels that she can't spend a couple of days without her friend (or more specifically to my mind with my daughter). And tbh I'm feeling pretty sad about it because I feel it may be or come across as a "mean girl" kind of thing. And also being fair I don't know what her intentions really are, nor is it my business.
In the end I suppose that when I look at it through my daughters eye's, she would end up being a third wheel and alone the whole time, which breaks my heart.
My wife said that she wasn't going to invite them. That's fine but I'm still not totally sure if I'm right in feeling the way I do or if I'm being overly sensitive and overly protective. Also, I wouldn't want to be invited to a wedding just as a convenience for someone else. It seems to me they might be insulted as well.