'Mean Girls' star Jonathan Bennett said he and his fiancé were rejected by a wedding venue because they're gay

• "Mean Girls" actor Jonathan Bennet is engaged to TV show host Jaymes Vaughan.
• The two had their heart set on their dream wedding venue, Palace Resorts in Mexico.
• But Bennet said the owner of the resorts rejected them because it was "against his morals."

Jonathan Bennett said that he and his fiancé were rejected by their dream wedding venue because the owner said it was "against his morals" to marry two men.

Bennett, who played Aaron Samuels in 2004's "Mean Girls," is on the cover of the latest issue of The Knot. In his interview, he told the publication about the upsetting incident he and his fiancé, TV show host Jaymes Vaughan, had to go through.

"For years, we planned to get married at Palace Resorts in Mexico. When we got engaged, the owner said he couldn't marry us because we're two men and it goes against his morals," Bennett said. "That was a sucker punch to the gut."

Insider has reached out to Palace Resorts for comment.

However, Bennett said that the incident made them decide that their wedding was actually bigger than just a normal wedding. The actor said the wedding isn't about them, it's about the LGTBQ+ community, and they are now intent on making their wedding "very loud on purpose."

"We want to make sure that there's never a moment during the engagement or wedding planning journey that LGBTQ+ people aren't excited," Bennett said.

"We want to make sure that they are celebrated every moment and don't feel a sense of otherness. The otherness needs to be removed from gay weddings."

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This is not the first time a gay, engaged couple has been in the news after being rejected for their sexuality. Last year, in July, a wedding videographer business received a flurry of negative reviews after it refused to film the wedding of two women.

Bennett is best known for his role as heartthrob Aaron in "Mean Girls" opposite Lindsay Lohan, while his soon-to-be-husband Vaughan is the host of "Celebrity Page" and a former contestant on "Amazing Race."

The two announced their engagement on November 30 last year, with Vaughan proposing on the set of the TV movie "The Christmas House" with a specially written song for Bennett.

"I began to ugly-cry the ugliest cry anyone has ever cried," the actor said at the time.