“Criminal Minds” Actress Kirsten Vangsness To Marry Girlfriend Melanie Goldstein (Photos)

Posted on February 27, 2009

Actress Kirsten Vangsness will marry her longtime girlfriend Melanie Goldstein. Read more about actress Kirsten Vangsness wedding plans below.

Kirsten Vangsness is planning a Texas wedding this spring when she marries Melanie Goldstein, an assistant editor on TV show 24.

Same-sex marriages are only recognized in two U.S. states – Massachusetts and Connecticut – but Vangsness is hoping the new government will change that fact.

Vangsness says her upcoming wedding surprises her too.

She told People, “I never thought I would want to do it. Then when you meet the person, you’re like, ‘I want to marry you. I don’t care if there’s a law against it!’

“We’re going to get married in Texas because her parents have this great place there. And since it’s not official anywhere until things change – which I have total confidence that they will – we’re going to do it there just to completely thumb our nose (show scorn) at the government.”

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