Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are engagement and in it for the long haul, and they have no intentions on getting married anytime soon.

The pair has been dating since 2007. "Parenthood" star Shepard, 37, popped the question in January 2010.

They are waiting to get married when gay couples have the right to marry in California.

"Once it's official and everybody stops appealing it the minute before it passes, we'll get married," Bell, 32, told host Larry King on his show, according to Us magazine.

"I'll feel more comfortable having a party -- or whatever we have, if anything -- if half of our friends who are homosexuals [can celebrate]," Bell explained. "It's just kind of rude to invite everyone to a party for a rite not everyone can hold."

"I don't believe in standing in the way of love, and I want to stand up for that right," Bell recently told CNN. "And that's what it is. If someone wants to commit their life to another person, why would I not bolster that argument?"

Plus, her fiancé added, throwing a wedding before then "would just be tacky."

Shepard, 37, told CNN that taking a stance on gay marriage is by no means a way to put off a wedding.

"Do you know what this thing costs?" Shepard asked, holding up Bell's engagement ring. "This is more commitment than getting a tattoo! Like ... we own this thing!"

So no, he went on, it's not that they're "punishing America by not getting married. We're not going to have a party when half of our friends ... can't do that thing we're doing. We're not going to ask them to come celebrate a right they don't have. That's just tacky! Forget like anything else, it's like really tacky for us."

In the "Larry King Now" interview, the host asked the couple if they plan to have kids, to which both stars emphatically replied, "Yes!"

"We'll have them out of wedlock," Shepard told the former CNN journalist. "We're not worried about that."

"It doesn't really bother us," Bell echoed.

"We'll apply the appropriate paperwork for wills and security and such, but when he gave [the ring] to me . . . that meant more to me than proclaiming it in front of a group of people," Bell said. "That doesn't feel very significant to me. The moment that we shared when he proposed felt like the agreement."

The couple co-stars in the new released movie "Hit and Run," which Shepard also directed and co-wrote.