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Hmm....sticky situation. Weird that you'd call her your only real friend and also your best friend after 7 months only.
If you didn't want her there, you should have stuck with that and not said yes when she pressured you. If she wouldn't understand, then she's not such a great friend if she can't respect your wishes on what is an important day for you. It's your day.
If she was a more long-term and very close friend, I would never say yes and then take it back. No matter how close you are, rifts like that are always hard to mend, if they ever really do mend. Once trust is broken, it never comes back in the same way, even if you are able to forgive.
Since I could never consider a friend of only 7 months as important as you seem to consider her, I'd be straight with her and explain that you want something intimate (family only) and she can celebrate with you in a separate occasion/time. Though for me, I can't understand why you're so adamant about only family. If it's just about numbers, one more or less is not a big deal.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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