Whoever thought Barney Stinson was the marrying kind? But more importantly — who is he marrying?

How I Met Your Mother’s season finale opened up a whole new mystery while still evading the original one regarding the identity of the titular mother. But creator/executive producer Craig Thomas assures that Season 7 will offer answers and even more changes for our beloved quintet. Robin gets a new love interest for one (hello, Kal Penn! Goodbye, Michael Trucco!), Marshall gets a new job, of course, and “Ted Mosby, Architect” will finally be a great pickup line. Don’t believe us? Keep reading.

So Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) does get married, right?
Craig Thomas: Barney does get married. It’s not the smoothest wedding day, but it’s epic — truly epic. In the premiere, we definitely pick up right where we left off. … We also see Punchy’s wedding in the premiere. We start at Barney’s wedding in the future. He’s having the jitters. Ted says, “We’ve already been to the worst wedding of all time” — Punchy’s. And we flash back to September of 2011 when the gang finally goes to the long-talked-about Punchy wedding. We had the two weddings inform each other.

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As any regular viewer of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother well knows, the show’s May 16 season finale includes a wedding. Yes, these are the nuptials that were teased in this season’s premiere back in September, but we still don’t know who’s getting married — it could be Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) or Robin (Cobie Smulders) or even Ted’s (Josh Radnor) pal Punchy (Chris Romano). Alas, there’s a bigger question that stems from the impending nuptials, one that has been bouncing around the rumor mill: Are we also going to meet the mother in the season finale’s wedding on May 16? Well, here’s your answer:

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I can’t stand the suspense! Are we finally going to see whose wedding the gang is at on How I Met Your Mother‘s season finale? — Nicole, Las Vegas

“We’re going to learn a great deal about this wedding, but not everything,” teases executive producer Carter Bays of his top-secret May 16 season ender (the name of the episode: Barney’s catchphrase, “Challenge Accepted”).

I’m hearing the finale will reveal the face of only the bride or groom, with the other individual’s identity revealed next season, which will also take place in a prewedding time period. “We’ll sort of keep touching back on the wedding to fill out the details more and more as the series continues [at least through 2013].”

But with Ted confirmed as best man, Bays says we can safely predict that at least one or two of the following is the intended bride and/or groom: Barney, Robin or Ted’s childhood friend, Punchy. “I can guarantee [the wedding] doesn’t go great,” adds Bays. “Nothing on this show is necessarily happily ever after. It’ll be the end of somebody’s love story and the beginning of Ted’s.”

Source: Tv Guide