Lily Aldrin

Lily Aldrin
File:How I met your mother cast.jpg Marshall (Jason Segel), Lily (Alyson Hannigan), Ted (Josh Radnor), Robin (Cobie Smulders), and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris)
First appearance	Pilot
Created by	Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
Portrayed by	Alyson Hannigan
In-universe information
Nickname	Lil, Lilypad
Gender	Female
Occupation	Kindergarten Teacher
Family	Janice Aldrin (mother) Lois (grandmother)
Spouse	Marshall Eriksen(husband)

Lily Aldrin is a fictional character created by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas for the television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Alyson Hannigan.

She is a Kindergarten teacher. She is married to Marshall Eriksen and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Lily is the daughter of Janice Aldrin and the granddaughter of a woman named Lois.

She met Marshall during her freshman year at Wesleyan University in 1996 and dated him throughout her college years. The two became engaged in the fall of 2005, as portrayed in the series pilot. Towards the end of the first season, she reveals to Robin that she has been having second thoughts about getting married without having experienced much else of life before Marshall. Those doubts intensify, and she acts upon them, applying for a painting fellowship on the West Coast. She originally tells Ted she decided not to go through with it, but Marshall finds out she did, and was accepted. After arguing the point on and off, with several pause breaks in between for drinks, dinner at Red Lobster, and sex, Lily cannot promise Marshall that she would return to him after the three-month fellowship, and the engagement ends.

She later confesses that her decision to leave was a mistake, but it takes several episodes until Marshall re-embraces her and their romantic relationship. Soon after, they resume their engagement. Episode 10 of season 2 implies that within a year, Marshall and Lily will be married. They finally married in "Something Borrowed," the penultimate episode of the second season.

She despises the word "moist."

Romantic Interests

• Marshall Eriksen - Marshall & Lily met at Wesleyan University. They dated, fell in love & stayed together for 10 years. They planned to get married earlier but Lily got cold feet & backed out, deciding instead to go to San Francisco for an internship. She later returns, however & later to two are married . . . thrice! The first time they are married for about 12 seconds while at sea before being unmarried, the second time they are married out in a garden surrounded by their closest friends & the third time, minutes after their second wedding, they go inside for a third one, that goes horribly wrong. Lily & Marshall lost their virginity to each other.

• Scooter - Scooter, or 'Bill' as he is now known, was Lily's high school boyfriend. He crashes Lily & Marshall's wedding in hopes of winning Lily back. He fails miserably. Scooter was played by David Burtka, Neil Patrick Harris' partner.