Another scenario is if her own mother wasn't present for their wedding. And I am guessing they haven't mentioned anything about her family till now or maybe I forgot.
Dan, I totally understand your reasoning for not liking this story direction, but I still hope you will stick through the rest of the season and see how it actually pans out. Knowing you're such a huge fan of the show, you planning to give up on the show now during its final season, saddens me more than the actual story direction :lol.
I'll still check the recaps on various sites to see what direction the show went, but I'm not interested in watching at this point. At least not until I find out that it all ended in a way that wouldn't suck so badly.
But either way, I'm really dissatisfied with the show right now. Season 9 has been craptastic for most of it. They seemed like they were headed on the right path after the mid-winter break, but with this thing, it just took me right out of the show. Either way, as a head-fake or the real deal, I just don't want to play anymore. It's not fun at this point. Even if they end up defusing this bomb at the 11th hour, it'll hang like a pall over the rest of the show.
They're gonna try to work in more wedding wackiness in the midst of this? They're gonna go for broad Barney humor and catchphrases and whatnot? Really? When we know that we have a heaping helping of pathos waiting for us? For me, that will sour every joke, every sweet moment, every paean to hopefulness, and I just don't want to go there.
I'd rather watch something else that actually entertains me, than force myself to watch the remainder of this show.
I've quit shows before when I got wind that they were headed in the wrong direction. I quit Dexter. I quit The Sopranos. I quit Six Feet Under. I quit Vikings. I'm quitting this one. I'm not a completionist. I'd rather the story be incomplete and (in my head) open-ended so I can write whatever ending I want, than not be able to unsee the "official" ending.
So, I'm done. I'm ok with that, too. I'm frustrated at the show, but at least I only got into it right before the 7th season, instead of waaaaay back in Season 1. I can't imagine the people who were there from the start and how they feel right now. They must be absolutely furious. But me, I'll just say "Screw it. Life's too short to spend it watching TV that doesn't entertain you" and move on.