Kristin Bauer-van Straten, of Caledonia, who plays the dry and sarcastic Pam on the HBO series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, said she'll kick off her first day of married life with the County Fair.
She married Abri van Straten, a South African singer-songwriter, just months after they met. She first fell in love with his music - he is the lead vocalist and guitarist for a South African rock band, The Lemmings.
She found his music by chance, when she went to sit and found the chair was already occupied by a CD. It could have been the last straw of a bad day, but she listened to the CD and the more she heard, the more she became intrigued - to the point she contacted the band manager and "name-dropped," by her confession. They met for coffee in January and the rest was history.