“Girls Gone Wild” Joe Francis is officially engaged to a beautiful CBS News Entertainment reporter named Christina McLarty, the niece of Mack McLarty, former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton (more pictures/video below).

Christina and Joe have been dating on and off for more than four years and finally decided to take the next big step. They have already set the wedding date – it will be a September wedding, but it won’t be traditional.

“We have chosen to have a civil domestic partnership because we don’t believe it’s appropriate to be married until our gay and lesbian friends are afforded the same rights as us to legally marry in the United States,” Joe Francis told Page Six.

The lovebirds are planning a private ceremony with 200 guests at Casa Aramara, Joe’s beachfront estate in Punta Mita, Mexico. Quincy Jones will be Joe’s best man! “This will be a nontraditional celebration of love, family and friends,” Francis said.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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