Beautiful blond "Hart of Dixie" actress Brandi Burkhardt — that's Crickett to fans of the CW series — is taking on a much-coveted role next month. She'll be a June bride for real, marrying Beverly Hills jeweler Douglas Kazanjian. "He is wonderful. He's a surfer, he plays golf — I feel so lucky I keep pinching myself," gushes the actress, who is sporting a superb sapphire ring (a Kazanjian Bros. specialty).

The couple plans to honeymoon in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, "a part of the world I haven't been to," she says. This will all transpire "before 'Hart of Dixie' starts up again, so we'll have the whole experience and the honeymoon without interrupting the flow."

Certainly Burkhardt, a former Miss New York in the Miss America pageant, is used to schedule juggling in different worlds. When she is not busy with "Hart of Dixie," she is often busy singing in concert in Europe. She has a constituency of admirers on the Continent who know nothing about her series work, in fact. She does stage musicals here in the States as well. Next up is a summer outing with "Camelot" in Santa Barbara, California, in which she's playing Guinevere.

She also has a role in the forthcoming feature film, "How to Make Love Like an Englishman," with Jessica Alba, Salma Hayek, Pierce Brosnan and Malcolm McDowell. "I did that last fall. I only had to work a couple of days. I was doing that, an episode of 'Mad Men' that just aired and a musical about the life of Walt Disney, 'When You Wish.' And we were in production on 'Hart of Dixie.' I was doing four things at once. I couldn't wait for Christmas break," she admits with a smile.

Burkhardt now looks forward to starting a family — and a schedule that's a bit less frenetic.

"I can't tell whether I keep all these balls in the air because I like it or because I'm afraid of not having them in the air," she notes candidly.

She'd like to see "Hart of Dixie" — and Crickett — go on for years to come. The Rachel Bilson starrer, about a young New York doctor thrown into a small town Gulf Coast practice, recently completed shooting its third season.

Look for Crickett "to have a very interesting turn at the end of the season," tips Burkhardt.

"It's hard to predict what the writers are going to do. Every time I make a prediction they go in a completely different way than I've considered, so that's always fun. It keeps the audience interested," she says.

Particularly rewarding to her is that her part "started off as sort of a one-episode kind of thing. Then they saw Lemon (Jaime King) and Annabeth (Kaitlyn Black) and Crickett together, they saw this little trio, and kept writing for us. Every time you book a job, you're secretly hoping, 'Oh, they're going to write more for me.'"

And in this case, that's exactly what happened.