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Jane Lynch and Lara Embry (right)

Glee star Jane Lynch has wed psychiatrist Lara Embry on May 31 in Massachusetts at the Blue Heron restaurant, UsMagazine.com reported. The pair was engaged last November. Twenty-one guests attended the ceremony and dinner reception featuring a four-piece jazz combo.

Lynch was quoted as saying in People magazine earlier this year: "It's just the greatest thrill in the world to find somebody that you want to be with every day."

Massachusetts was the first in the US to legalise lesbian marriage in 2004.

According to Shewired.com, the pair met at the National Center for Lesbian Rights awards ceremony in San Francisco last year. Lynch was at last year's celebration to present an award to Ilene Chaiken, creator of the The L Word series while Dr Embry, a mother of two, received the NCLR Justice Award which honours an individual "who has shown the courage and perseverance to fight for justice and sacrificed to make broad social change for the LGBT community."

Shewired.com reported: "Embry and her former domestic partner lived in Washington. Each gave birth to a child, and each adopted her non-biological child through a second-parent adoption. The couple later moved to Florida, and their relationship ended several years after that. They agreed to share custody of both children and did so successfully until Embry's former partner unilaterally decided to separate the children and cut off all contact between Embry and one of her children. NCLR represented Embry in her initial suit for shared custody.

"On May 13, 2009, the Florida Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and held that Florida must give full faith and credit to adoptions granted to same-sex couples by other states, holding that Embry 'must be given the same rights as any other adoptive parent in Florida.'"