The BIG discussion from The How I Met Your mother Season 6 Premier entitled Big Days was pretty clear, who’s wedding was was Ted giving a toast at?
I mean it wasn’t Ted’s. And from what I’m hearing from twitter and the interweb, most speculate it was Robin or (and) Barney. With that said, here are some things to consider.
- Ted is giving the toast, so he is more than likely the best man.
- Marshall is wearing the same tux with the same boutonniere as Ted. So this leads us to think he is in the wedding as well.
- It has been argued that Lily is wearing a bridesmaid dress. It’s an ugly one if you asked me, but I can see their point.
- Barney & Robin are not seen in these future scenes. That’s gotta be by design. Either A. the HIMYM writers are trying to screw with our heads (which happens often) or B. They are involved and still inside.
- A reader named Annie said this and I loved the point:
Ted started to tell the story from the day he met Robin. And he said she would be important to the story.
He met Robin, they dated but it didn’t work out. Then she dated Barney, but it wasn’t the “right time” for them. Ted met Stella, got left at the altar and that led him to be a professor, wich is why he met Cindy. He returned the yellow umbrella he had taken. Now Cindy’s roommate (the mother) has the yellow umbrella. Sometime in the future Barney and Robin will be ready to get in a real serious relationship and they end up getting married. Barney’s best friend is Ted, so he would be the best man. Ted is nervous because: a) it’s his friends wedding b) He never thought he would make a toast at Robin’s wedding. - Who else could it be?
I’ll add more to this as the conspiracy grows, but what do you think? Comments or the every so lovely poll below:
(PS, I reset teh votes to add Punchy… however pre glitter results showed Robin & Barney as teh clear favorites)
Who's wedding did we see during Big Days
- Undisclosed 3rd & 4th Party (8%, 60 Votes)
- Punchy (35%, 265 Votes)
- Robin & Barney (39%, 289 Votes)
- Barney & someone (9%, 66 Votes)
- Robin & someone (9%, 68 Votes)
Total Voters: 736
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It’s never Robin & Barneys Wedding. They have to solve this in this season and there is no way they will have a married Barney on the show
they didnt say that the wedding would be this season. the cast has contracts that go beyond season 6, and the opening title said “a little ways down the road” so that doesnt really set a definite time for when the wedding will be.
besides, how long did it take the writers to work in the yellow umbrella? one of the nice things about HIMYM is that you really dont feel constricted to ying up all the loose ends by the season finale.
does ted meet the mother on the day at the wedding or at the wedding itself?
if it’s the second one, it must be the wedding of someone who knows the mother.
Did I miss something? I thought it was said it was the wedding of the two women from the first episode this season? The roommate of the wife?
Sounds reasonable.
As much as I reallllly want it to be Barney and Robin’s wedding, and at first I thought it was, I’m not so sure anymore. And the only reason being – wouldn’t Barney’s brother, James, be the best man?! I mean, I know Ted is Barney’s best friend, but he’s also insanely close with his brother. IIRC, Barney was James’ best man when they got married, right?! Just some food for thought. Maybe James is too busy because of the baby?
I think it’s Punchys. because Punchy askes Ted to be his best man. And Marshall & Lily are at the wedding, because they know Punchy from their collagetime. And that would be the answer why Robin & Barney aren’t at the wedding.
I think it’s definitely Punchys.
It’s definitely Punchy’s.
He’s a pal of Ted’s from his school days, so Marshall would know him also.
And you know how the writers like to screw with our minds, teasing us with the possibility of Barney’s wedding!
Robin and Barney is too easy. The writers are trying to get people to think that. I think it fits if it is Cindy and that other girls wedding (The one from the same episode). He meets Robin, and it doesn’t work, so he goes and get the tattoo to try and win the break up, which leads him to Stella, and then Robin coming to the wedding causes Stella to leave, which cause him to become a professor, which causes him to meet Cindy, and then it doesn’t work out, but he helps her realize she really wants women, and so she marries that one, and invites Ted to the wedding, where he finally meets the mother.
I also don’t think it is Punchy’s, because why would the mother be there?
why are people thinking that its cindy and that girl’s wedding? why would ted be best man?? or marshall be a groomsman?? and why would he want the day to be perfect?? I think it’s probably Robin’s wedding because in the latest episode she asked him to be her best man. and maaaybe its punchy’s but his wedding is coming up kinda soon… probably this season… and i don’t think that we’ll be meeting the mother that soon… or at least I hope not, cause that would mean the end of the show 🙁
At first I was almost certain this would be Punchy’s wedding, asking Ted to be his best man and all. However, after ‘False Positive’ a Robin/Barney wedding seems possible. As ‘mandagoosh’ said, it’s reasonable that Barney would choose James as his best man. We never learned that Ted was the best man of the groom, why wouldn’t he be Robin’s? The possibility of this being Robin’s wedding definately grew after last episode, Barney or no Barney. 😉
Am I the only one who thinks that Don will come back from Chicago and want to marry Robin. I mean Future Ted made him seem like a bigger deal than what we’ve seen so far. I think that its Robin and Don’s wedding and just as Future Ted’s said before “Never invite an Ex to your wedding” Robin leaves don at the altar ala Stella and goes to Barney then.
Robin asked Ted to be her best man, so maybe James is Barney’s best man and Ted is Robin’s?
So many theories….
My own conclusions are the following:
-It cannot be Barney and Robin’s wedding, because a) it would be too obvious, and b) the writers hated the fact that they put them together before, so they certainly won’t get back together.
-Couldn’t be anything involving Don, cause they say he wasn’t going to be part of the show anymore.
-Cannot be Cindy’s wedding, cause Ted and his friends aren’t that close to her.
-I don’t think it’s gonna be Punchy, his wedding arrives far too early in the show, plus, they met in high school, not college, so Marshall and Lily aren’t really close to him.
-They won’t let Barney get married, I’m sure of it!
-I heard something about Ted’s family members…I think it could be his sister’s wedding (Marsh and Lily know her well enough).
-Could ne Robin’s wedding (like some of you said, it explains the beginning with Robin and also she asked Ted to be her best man.
-Funny idea: Zooey could divorce “the captain” and get married with another man. As we saw, she and Ted become closer and closer, all the group loves her, and it would explain why they said that she “would be a really important woman in Ted’s life” if he meets her wife because of Zooey’s wedding…
i have a feeling Barney will marry nora, the girl from desperation day and the wedding in the beginning is his.
ya zoey divorced the captain and started dating ted but it didn’t work out with ted either. well that was said anyway in the episode garbage island where ted is in hong kong and he runs into wendy the waitress who asks him about is relationship with zoey and he says they broke up
i believe it’s punchy’s or robin’s wedding cuz both of them asked ted to become their best man. if it was punchy’s wedding then i think that he or his girlfriend somehow knows cindy’s roommate. if it’s robin’s wedding then its highly possible that ted’s wife is robin’s cousin. or mayb cindy asked ted 2 b her best man and he met her there. but also he says to his kid ‘the day i met your mother was at the day of a weddig.’ he didn’t say ‘at a’
I’ve seen it last week (or the week before, I don’t remember), but didn’t know it at the time I wrote the comment.
I agree with the Robin and Don wedding scenario. I mean, first of all, they make a point of showing Ted mangling the beer bottle label, which they then explain he does when he’s nervous. He could be nervous about making a speech, but he’s a Professor so I don’t think it’s only a public speaking thing. Whose wedding would make him nervous? Robin’s definitely would. Plus, we know she’s already asked him to be her best man (later in the season). PLUS, if you remember season 5, the episode where she meets Don, Marshall is teasing her that she will meet the love of her life because she said she is over dating and just focusing on her career. Well, at the end of that episode, future Ted tells the kids that ‘ironically, that’s the day aunt Robin met Don’. And he says it as if the kids would already know who Don is! How else would they know who Don is if Don is out of the picture already by the time this story is being told?
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I criusly want ds 2 b ROBIN & BARNEY’s wedding..I luv ’em 2gedr..
I think that it is Barney and Nora’s wedding. The storyline with Barney’s dad will make him realise that he wants to settle down and so he will go back to Nora.
MASS SPOILER ALERT!
If you don’t want the next three episodes to be spoiled stop reading!
In the coming episodes, Zoe divorces the captain, because she’s in love with Ted. They get together over two or three episodes, then there is an episode set in 2021. It shows Ted meeting Wendy the waitress at an airport and he says he broke up with Zoe. So there is a small possibility it’s zoe’s wedding.
Next ep, Barney meets his dad, which could cause him to settle down, possibly get married. I hope it’s Barney/Robin.
Sorry if I spoiled it for you, I just watched the episodes online, they’re amazing.
It was clearly Barney’s and Robin’s wedding. Ted and Marshall didn’t go to high school together. So, there is no reason that Marshall would be in Punchy’s wedding party. However, Ted was stated to be the best man and Marshall’s tux was identical to Teds, indicating that Marshall was a groomsman. Lilly was acting in the capacity of the Maid/Matron of honor. Barney and Robin were conspicuously absent. Come on!!!
ya i think so too. barney clearly really likes her in the desperation episodes and i like nora she seems raight for barney
Its obvious
its Barney and Nora
isn’t it punchy’s wedding?
It has to be Barney’s due to both Ted and Marshall being in the same tuxes and the three of them constantly argue about being one anothers best friend status and who is who’s. Plus the scene after that has barney in it.
Either Marshall is a groomsman or co bestman.. but Ted was the one making the speech… At the college reunion flash they refered to Teds wife but they would have said Robin not “wheres your wife”
but why he never mentions aunt nora or uncle don… clearly they call their parents closest friends aunt and uncle and im sure if the had a significant other they would follow suit with them… and just like I mentioned before Marshall and Ted a identical.. Bestmen and groomsman have a slight difference in tux or boutineers
I agree if James plays a part them the unconventional Robin could have her own best man… but I doubt it because of Marshalls attire
the mother could be a close friend of Punchy’s or Punchy’s wife.
yes but in the season final, it seems Barney is the groom, because a) Ted says “I heard the groom needed me” and Barney replies and b) Barney is wearing a tie with his tux, not a bow-tie, like Marshall and Ted.
Also Punchy went to high school with Ted and Marshall and Lily went to college with him. So its unlikely that Marshall would be a part of the ceremony, like a groomsmen, and we can assume he is because he is dressed the sam as Ted
The writers wouldn’t want to refer to Nora and/or Don and Aunt or Uncle, because that would give way too much away. e.g. It would be obvious, if after Robin and Don broke up, Future Ted was still calling him “your uncle Don”, that Robin and Don would end up getting married. The writer wouldn’t want to spoil the story like that
There is also the guy robin didn’t ask out at that club (The guy from the store Ted bought his cowboy boots). Ted said there was more to that story, maybe that’s who Robin might be marrying. Barney will probably be jealous and want to stop the wedding (By impressing Robin with his nice tie).
I see the point in this article, but If it was Barney and robin, why would teds future wife be there? I mean where’s the connection? How does Barney or Robin know the woman that is Ted’s future wife?