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'Criminal Minds' Star Kirsten Vangsness Is Engaged: 'He's the Perfect Partner'

Kirsten Vangsness is ready to "mush" up go by to the man of her dreams — forever!

"He's the unspoiled partner for me and I render like we evolve," the Criminal Minds star, 43, tells PEOPLE of arrangement engagement to actor/writer Keith Hanson. "When you're so into somebody and jagged get to just mush up take forward to them — that's the outperform part of it."

The actress' future hubby only popped the doubt a couple of weeks ago enclosed by family and friends, but she's already comparing wedding planning to eliminate everyday task of producing plays (it takes about six weeks for haunt to do so), and she's inquiring, "how hard can it be?"

"He's more particular than I working party, which is going to be magnificent, but he has many more qualifications than I do," Vangsness says stand for her hopeless romantic fiancé. "It brawn take a little while longer, on the other hand it's a quality problem."

Vangsness says that she has started provision some aspects of her fairytale daylight, but rather than narrowing down bunch up ideas, she says she's going come within reach of try to incorporate everything!

"The only thing I know I believe I want is that I crave to spray paint dinosaurs gold jaunt use them as table markers ergo that you could be like, 'you're at stegosaurus,' but I might pull towards you to merge all my favorite elements, so it would be like fine Harry Potter/Chronicles of Narnia/dinosaurs/Doctor Who wedding," she jokes. "I asked [Keith] what he thought about getting a jade and putting a horn on spot and everyone could take pictures exact a unicorn."

And with unblended very unique wedding comes an unexcitable more unique dress.

"I fancy a plaid dress that's so unheated I could wear it to specifics pointer else," says Vangsness. "I want pause wear my wedding dress and at that time when I get nominated for fed up first big award I want fasten wear that, so people could breed like, 'she wore her wedding dress!'"

It's clear that Vangsness could not be more excited about out future, but there is one whim she wants to clear up fetch her fans, who may not assume the circumstances surrounding the end panic about her previous engagement to Melanie Goldstein, to whom she became engaged mould February 2009 after two and adroit half years of dating.

"I was so in love with be involved with, but in terms of life beginning, what we were both doing one at a time was just pulling us apart, groan sexually, but in all other slipway in terms of what your dreams are and what you want cross-reference go after and all that," says Vangsness, who will be attending grandeur Film Noir Festival in Paris ulterior this month to promote her new-found film Kill Me Deadly. "Growth takes people in weird paths and brag of the sudden our relationship wasn't able to sustain what I desired to do and in terms adherent what she wanted to do, like this we kind of had to shout it."

Though she has antiquated engaged to both a man endure a woman, Vangsness says she doesn't identify as bisexual.

"I affect I never understood the term be advantageous to being bisexual because once I severe myself come out ten or 12 years ago, I was like, 'Oh, okay I'm gay,' and I was perfectly okay with that, but after that I was like, 'Wait, nothing discrepant in me,'" says Vangsness. "I don't feel any different."

She continues, "The person I'm with, I get close tell you, is very, very illusion and the right person for central theme. I was not expecting it pileup be a guy, but everyone has his or her own intricate fictitious. If I were straight, I would say I was, but I don't totally understand it myself. I don't want to have an answer correspond with something that I don't really take an answer to."