"How I Met Your Mother" Season 8 only has four episodes left to air until May 2013. From Episode 20, "The Time Travelers," we learned that Ted Mosby is only 45 days away from meeting his kids' mother. And it happens on his friends' wedding. Yet spoilers indicate the full wedding story will not be seen in the finale. Could we be in for the best and worst sitcom cliffhanger since Ross said Rachel instead of Emily?

If you were an avid fan of "Friends," you must have dropped your jaw in 1998 when Ross said Rachel instead of Emily in the Season 4 finale. Fast forward to "How I Met Your Mother" fifteen years later. We are cordially invited again to a Friends-type wedding, which may or may not work as we've hoped or expected. Robin is freaking out. Barney "wants a new tie." But we know there's been a wedding reception and Ted's future wife played the bass guitar.

At the HIMYM Season 8 premiere episode, Ted recounts to an elderly woman the events that transpired in the wedding. But we don't know what he's told her yet. What we do know is that for some reason, Ted wasn't with Lily and Marshall post-ceremony.

We also know that the mother arrives at the same train station - Farhampton. She seems to be intent on avoiding eye contact with Ted. Something must have happened. These things are not likely to be answered in the HIMYM Season 8 finale. Instead, the burning questions will have to wait until the farewell season of the hit comedy series.

Forty-five days before Ted Mosby meets the woman he's been waiting for all his life. Is she the date he stood up at the end of HIMYM Season 1? Is she the random girl Ted bumps into at a St Patrick's Day party? Will she tell the story in HIMYM Season 9?

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