Currently planning our wedding and drilling into our guest list to make numbers / budget work for our dream venue.
We're having a relatively small amount of people we love and most want to be around us & have been quite brutal in excluding people that we like but don't socialise with or hear from as much as others.
The trouble is that a close friend of mine lives with her partner and I (along with the rest of our mutual friends) hate him. He's controlling towards her, rude to us as her friends, a deeply unlikable person. She's completely different around him, like night & day. She knows how we feel about him but also that we won't interfere, her choices are her own to make & we'll still be here if/when she needs us. My Fiancé has met her but not him as they moved some distance away pre-pandemic.
I desperately want her to be at our wedding, but absolutely do not want him & his bad attitude there.
AIBU to invite her on her own? Several of our wider group of friends are single so she wouldn't be the one odd spare wheel at the party. I do accept that if I invited her alone she might not come.