PASADENA, Calif. — Lovebirds Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) will be heading to Niagara Falls shortly for their wedding this fall on NBC’s “The Office.”

Greg Daniels, the executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning comedy that is set inside the fictional Dunder Mifflin paper supply company in Scranton, Pa., confirmed here Friday that director Paul Fieg is currently in the Falls to scout out locations for the wedding.

Daniels said he “assumed” the wedding would take place on the U. S. side of the Falls, but wouldn’t be sure until Fieg finishes his scouting.

“I know the Canadian side is very dramatic,” said Daniels after a news conference with the nation’s television critics on the set of the program. “We’re scouting a lot of different locations.”

Sweet Pam and prankster Jim were engaged last season. They planned to elope in the season’s next to last episode but called it off after deciding to have a real wedding. In the season finale, Pam and Jim learned that she was pregnant after she had medical tests at a hospital where she was taken after injuring an ankle playing volleyball at the company picnic. Why are they getting married at the Falls?

“It felt to me that it was in kind of the same spirit of Scranton and the Buffalo branch [of Dunder Mifflin] and the Rust Belt,” said Daniels. “And it has an impressive component to it. It is a little bit undervalued and it worked with our kind of theme — that they decided to go with a kind of kitschy wedding.”

He said “part” of the wedding will be filmed in the Falls and Krasinski and Fischer will be there.

In the earlier news conference, Fischer — who is engaged in real life to writer Lee Kirk—was asked if she or Pam would go down the aisle first.

“Pam is going to walk down the aisle very soon because she is pregnant and is trying to hide that from certain members of her family,” said Fischer. “So they’re getting married quickly in the fourth episode. And I actually just had a fitting for Pam’s wedding dresses, just before I walked in here and that was a really special moment.”

Fischer said the show’s fans have related well to the story arc that began when Pam was a receptionist engaged to someone else.

“When the relationship [with Jim] started, and it was kind of an unrequited love relationship, I would get a lot of fan mail from people who also were pining away for someone else in their office,” said Fischer. “And then when we finally got together, I got mail like that. And now I’m getting a bunch of mail, ‘I can’t wait for you guys to have a baby because we’re expecting.’ ”

“So I feel like we’re sort of growing up with our fans and we’re going through those same life stages of the people who were watching us from the beginning.”

I think that’s maybe one of the reasons the relationship has continued to be successful.”

Perhaps the wedding will make up for the closing of the Buffalo branch of Dunder Mifflin in the finale. Asked why the Buffalo office was the one that was closed down, executive producer Paul Lieberstein (who also plays Toby) dryly said, “Sales were down. We had to close somewhere. We can’t close Utica. . . . It was really a toss-up.”

Later in the news conference, writer-producer-actor B. J. Novak (Ryan Howard) playfully came to Western New York’s defense when Daniels and a cast member spoke glowingly of Scranton.

“It is no Buffalo,” cracked Novak. “That is the most beautiful.”

The sixth season premiere of “The Office” is scheduled for 9 p. m. Sept. 17.