diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 4b5c7cc..da8401d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Changelog
 Here you can see the full list of changes between each SQLAlchemy-Utils release.
 
 
+0.16.22 (2013-10-03)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Added optional columns and options parameter for TSVectorType
+
+
 0.16.21 (2013-09-29)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index da92265..56ad9e6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ for name, requirements in extras_require.items():
 
 setup(
     name='SQLAlchemy-Utils',
-    version='0.16.21',
+    version='0.16.22',
     url='https://github.com/kvesteri/sqlalchemy-utils',
     license='BSD',
     author='Konsta Vesterinen, Ryan Leckey, Janne Vanhala, Vesa Uimonen',
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
index 8b96861..e7706f2 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ from .types import (
 )
 
 
-__version__ = '0.16.21'
+__version__ = '0.16.22'
 
 
 __all__ = (
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/types/ts_vector.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/types/ts_vector.py
index 4d09aa8..b662cd4 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/types/ts_vector.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/types/ts_vector.py
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.base import ischema_names
 
 
 class TSVectorType(sa.types.UserDefinedType):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Initializes new TSVectorType
+
+        :param *args: list of column names
+        :param **kwargs: various other options for this TSVectorType
+        """
+        self.columns = args
+        self.options = kwargs
+
     """
     Text search vector type for postgresql.
     """
diff --git a/tests/types/test_tsvector.py b/tests/types/test_tsvector.py
index cfcfbb6..707b2e1 100644
--- a/tests/types/test_tsvector.py
+++ b/tests/types/test_tsvector.py
@@ -30,3 +30,8 @@ class TestTSVector(TestCase):
             autoload_with=self.engine
         )
         assert isinstance(table.c['search_index'].type, TSVectorType)
+
+    def test_catalog_and_columns_as_args(self):
+        type_ = TSVectorType('name', 'age', catalog='pg_catalog.simple')
+        assert type_.columns == ('name', 'age')
+        assert type_.options['catalog'] == 'pg_catalog.simple'