Will you share your take on this situation with my extended family?

This Easter Sunday my family is visiting my grandfather at the assisted living facility where he lives to have brunch with him. My uncle, the local patriarch of the family, emailed invitations to the in town family including my brother and sister and their families, a cousin and a step-cousin and their families and a couple of other local relatives. Not long after the invites went out, my sister asked if I planned to attend – I had never received an invitation. She told my uncle I would like to join the family who told her in turn that he had already called in the reservation and if I wanted to join in I would have to get the info and set up a reservation on my own. I admit it, I was hurt that my uncle didn’t include my family and me.

Here is a little more background. First, I am not Christian and do not celebrate Easter. Second, it has been a pretty challenging year in my world and the one family member I have been consistently in contact with is my sister. I have seen my larger extended family on big occasions, but I have missed several smaller gatherings during the past couple of years. When I was married recently the only people invited to the wedding were my sister (who I am very close to) and my husband’s and my children – no extended family from either side was invited. Finally, although we aren’t a super close knit family, we have always enjoyed getting together and there is no estrangement (as far as I know!) between myself and the rest of the family.

All the same I feel hurt and slighted by this whole situation and I would be very interested to hear the Collective’s take on it and thoughts as to whether I should discuss it with my uncle.