- Robin is emotionally torn when Ted meets an exciting new woman, Victoria, at the wedding. Afterward, though, he doesn't know how to contact her.
- Ted meets a beautiful woman named Victoria at Claudia's and Stu's wedding and they spend a great time together that night. Unfortunately, Ted and Victoria made a deal that they will never see each other again after that night and they do not exchange telephone numbers or anything else. The morning after the wedding party, Ted wants desperately to see the girl again. So he starts searching for her and asks anyone from the wedding who could have possibly know her, but she seems to be lost.—Sss
- With Robin unable to attend Claudia and Stuart's wedding, Ted, at the wedding without a date, ends up meeting a beautiful woman he eventually learns is named Victoria. She however has a policy never to hook up with a guy at weddings, since everyone is caught up by the romantic aspect of the night. Attracted to Ted, she makes a proposal: no sharing of names or contact information, they spend a glorious night together (with no sex), and that they never see each other again so that the beauty of the night will never be tarnished by "the day after". Ted agrees. But after he tells Marshall and Lily about his perfect night with Victoria, they chastise him for letting the woman of his dreams slip away. As Ted goes on a mission to locate Victoria, an unlikely person, who may have ulterior motives to help or not help Ted, may be the one person who was at the wedding that could identify the woman with who he spent the perfect night.—Huggo
- The story resumes from the end of the previous episode: Ted, alone at his friends' wedding reception, disappointed after Robin is forced to cancel their date because of work, spots a pretty woman across the room. The next morning at the apartment, he tells Marshall and Lily that he had the most amazing night of his life, and begins to tell the story.
Ted approaches the pretty woman, who warns him that she never hooks up with people at weddings. Ted wins her over with some flirting, so she suggests a compromise: they will spend the rest of the wedding together, enjoying a perfect evening, and then never see each other again, so that the future will never ruin it. They plan to use fake names - she says her name is Buttercup and Ted gives his as Lando Calrissian - but Barney immediately comes by the table and calls Ted by his name several times. They agree to tell each other only their first names (her name is Victoria (Ashley Williams)) and not exchange any contact information. Lily and Marshall interrupt the story to tell Ted what a stupid idea that is, but Ted defends his decision, saying that they had a great time and because he will never see Victoria again the memory won't be ruined.
Returning to his story of the previous night, Ted steals a bottle of champagne and Victoria steals the bouquet, and they head to a ballroom in the hotel. After Victoria dances to Ted's piano accompaniment, the two almost kiss. Victoria says that they shouldn't kiss that night, that a bad kiss would ruin the romance of the evening. Instead they hover just shy of a kiss because the exciting part is the moment leading up to it (its the drum-roll of the kiss). Marshall interrupts the story again and he and Lily reiterate that Ted is an idiot for not getting her number. While Ted initially defends the romance of their night together, he soon snaps and realizes that he will not rest until he sees Victoria again.
He calls Claudia to ask if she knows Victoria's last name, but Claudia tells him that there wasn't a guest named Victoria at the wedding. Lily thinks the girl used a 2nd fake name and Marshall thinks she is a ghost. Remembering that Victoria was sitting at the table with the bridesmaids, Ted calls Barney to ask if he would call the bridesmaid he hooked up with to see if she knows Victoria. After Ted promises to go to Foxy Boxing with Barney, he calls the bridesmaid, but she doesn't know who Victoria is. Thinking that he won't be able to find Victoria, Ted accepts the situation as fate.
Robin comes over to Ted, Lily, and Marshall's apartment and tells Lily that after anchoring the news the previous night she has been made the new substitute weekend anchor. Lily tells Robin the story of Ted's romantic evening and Robin says that she knows who Victoria is. Lily asks how Robin could know Victoria when she wasn't at the wedding, and Robin tells her that she came late to the reception to surprise Ted, but she saw Ted and Victoria almost kissing, and went into the ladies' room to cry. Robin says that she isn't sure why she was crying, and Lily tells her that obviously she cried because she has feelings for Ted. Robin finally admits that she does like Ted, but she doesn't think her feelings change anything because she doesn't want to get married and Ted does.
Returning to the previous night, Robin says that Victoria heard her crying and tried to comfort her, and told her she was the caterer. Robin says that she should find Ted and tell him who Victoria is so that he can be happy, but Lily suggests that Robin could tell him that she has feelings for him, which will also make him happy. Robin leaves the apartment unsure of what to do.
At MacLaren's, Ted, Marshall and Barney are having drinks when Robin arrives. She pulls Ted aside to talk to him when he gets a phone call from Claudia. She apologizes for snapping at him when he called to ask about Victoria. At Marshall's insistence, Ted asks Claudia where she got the cake for her wedding, and she tells him that a local bakery called The Buttercup Bakery. Remembering that Victoria gave Buttercup as her fake name, Ted realizes that she wasn't on the guest list because Victoria made the cake. Ted wants to go find Victoria, but Lily tries to stall him. When Lily asks Robin to back her up, Robin tells Ted to go ahead. Ted then remembers the end of his evening with Victoria. They return to the empty ballroom for one last dance. Ted tells Victoria that there is a flaw to their plan: while this night will be a great memory, it will be overshadowed by one bad memory, the memory of Victoria leaving and Ted never seeing her again. Victoria tells Ted to close his eyes and count to five, and when he does so, she's gone.
Sitting outside her bakery in a taxi cab, Ted wonders if he really should go inside to meet her. He wonders if this perfect memory is something that both he and Victoria needed in their lives. As he ponders this for way too long, Barney tells him to make a decision already. Ted goes inside, where he sees Victoria. She exclaims "thank god" and the two share a passionate kiss.
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