Looks like the Barney Stinson wedding of one — so far, at least — isn’t going to be the only celebration we get a sneak peek of in the next season of How I Met Your Mother.
In our chat earlier this week after the season finale, executive producer Criag Thomas told me that there’s a twist coming up that (in true Mother tradition) you might have seen coming if you were paying attention: Punchy’s wedding!
“The premiere episode of season 7 is actually going to be set at Punchy’s wedding,” he reveals of current plans. “So we will actually finally get to that, even though it’s not the monumental wedding — the Mothering Meeting wedding — we are actually going to get a glimpse of that.”
Previously, Thomas also revealed that we would be revisiting the mystery of Barney’s nuptials, but rest assured, that will be a slow burn. But, he adds, that’s not to say he wants to take the Barney maturing process too slow. “[That is] one of the big challenges of any long-running sitcom, especially one you watch in part for comfort because you know what you’re gonna get and you love these characters and you don’t want them to change,” he said. “As a showrunner, you don’t want to be too repetitive, either. You want to go new places with these characters. I think the way we have it set up for season 7, I think it’ll be the best of both worlds. I don’t want to say exactly what becomes of Barney in season 7, but you’re going to get to see him in both Single Barney mode and Couple Barney mode. But I won’t say exactly with whom.”
Source: InsideTV