I would bet you that there will be a Stella wedding as a process, but no Stella wedding in terms of them saying I do. I bet someone will use the opportunity to "speak now and not remain silent forever", and I should think it would be Robin that speaks up, they decide to give it another shot with Ted and she moves in, which solves the problem with Robin living at Ted's on his 31st birthday (the goat notwithstandin)

In the St. Patty's day episode Ted said that it turned out that the mother was at the same party that night, but they never met. If you look back at that episode there is a moment when Ted and this girl bump into eachother, apologize, and then walk away. The only purpose that could have served was for this girl to end up being the mother that was also at the party - they can then flashback to it or something.

It doesn't matter. I'm fairly confident this entire season is one large buildup to a break-up in the end which will end with Ted on his knees crying "STELLA!". I mean, c'mon, there's no way it can happen any other way.

Great. What about your spoiler policy? SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP Allison.

Shame on you.

Umm... so that was a pretty big spoiler to put in a freaking headline...

People are forgetting that in some families the label "aunt" and "uncle" are applied to friends of parents. It seems more like an older generation thing to me. My grandparents' friends are "aunt" and "uncle" but my own aunts and uncles are referred to simply by first name. It's a similar idea to not referring to adults as "Mr." and "Mrs.", but simply by first name.

In HIMYM it seems that older Ted sometimes uses titles and sometimes not, even when referring to the same people. For example, sometimes it's "aunt Lily" and sometimes it's just "Lily".

Robin is "Aunt Robin" because Barney is Ted's "brother." Rob in and Barney clearly have a future together.

This is the classic Gilligan's Island problem here - if they get off the island...there's no show. If they just say...yup here's Mom, it kills things and they know it. We'll find out in who, how and why in the final season...maybe not even till the last episode(s).

HIMYM is smart and funny - they are not gonna screw it up now.

-and just for the record I was one of the people who saw that Robin-Barney thing coming from the first season...just sayin'.

In the very first show, when Ted met Robin, the narrative was that was when he met their Aunt Robin. And Robins sister was in the corner crying. Robin's sister is the mother.

I don't think she's the mother because the whole premise of the show is old Ted telling the story to his kids-- they were fooled initially when they thought Robin was the mother, but if Stella is the mother, they'd know about the older half-sibling that the mother already had before they met.