One of the main cast of The Simpsons met her husband at an event in a real life Springfield.
Yeardley Smith has been giving her voice to the genius middle child of the Simpson family since 1989 and it helped her find her latest husband in a weird twist of fate.
In 2014 she was asked to represent the show at an unveiling of a Simpsons mural in Springfield, Oregon, and absolutely didn't want to go.
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Show bosses finally convinced her to make the journey for the event, planned in celebration of the show's 25th anniversary.
Smith offhandedly asked about security at the event, and was reassured that someone from the police could be assigned to her.
Meanwhile, in the Springfield Police Department the call for a volunteer to guard Lisa Simpson at the event went out and there were no takers.
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Eventually, seeing nobody keen on taking the job, Dan Grice put himself forward for the assignment.
What started with an event neither Smith nor Grice being particularly jazzed about going to ended up in marriage, as the pair kicked off their love story with a fateful meeting.
Smith told The Hollywood Reporter the spark was lit when he picked her up at the airport and the two hit it off almost immediately.
She said: "I get a giggly feeling when I think about it because Dan didn’t want to go to this event and I didn’t want to go to this event but something bigger than us was like, 'no, no, listen, you two are going to meet and it’s going to work out'.
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"You just have to have faith. We’ve seen it in movies and you always wonder, wouldn’t it be great if life was like that? Sometimes it is."
The couple tied the knot on June 11 at their Los Angeles home, they work together on true crime podcast Small Town Dicks along with Dan's fellow detective brother Dave.
The Simpsons has always been famously coy about the exact location of Springfield in the show, taking care to obscure the exact location whenever a US map comes up.
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It helps that there are so many places called Springfield across America, with 34 different places called Springfield across 25 states.
Show creator Matt Groening picked the town name for this reason exactly, so that it could be almost anywhere in America, though he later admitted the original idea had come from Springfield, Oregon.
The show has been going strong for 33 years now and has featured a list of celebrity guests as long as the plunge Homer took off Springfield Gorge.
However, all good things must surely come to an end and even The Simpsons will have to stop at some point.
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Writer Al Jean suggested that when the time comes to close the book on The Simpsons they would bring it back to connect with the Christmas pageant from the show's first episode, Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire.
Luckily, there aren't any plans to shut the book on The Simpsons just yet.
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Topics: Celebrity, The Simpsons
Joe Harker