The primary-ever Golden Bachelorette, Joan Vassos, discovered her fortunately ever after with Chock Chapple.
Joan met 24 males on the ABC actuality present, which premiered in September 2024, and in the end accepted a proposal from Chock on the seashores of Bora Bora.
“From our first date in Disneyland, I believed I noticed a future with you and it’s the primary time I pictured a future with anyone else in a extremely very long time,” Joan informed Chock through the ultimate rose ceremony, which aired in November 2024. “After which tragedy hit your loved ones and your mother handed away and also you needed to depart. I wished you to go however I used to be actually fearful that you just weren’t going to make it again and that’s once I realized that I couldn’t do that journey with out you.”
Earlier than Chock acquired down on one knee and proposed to Joan, she gushed, “I waited til this second on this superb location to inform you that I really like you and I need to spend the remainder of my life with you.”
Scroll all the way down to see their love story:
September 2024
Whereas Joan gave her first impression rose to Keith Gordon, Chock nonetheless left a long-lasting mark. “He was cute,” she stated within the premiere episode, which taped in summer season 2024 and aired that September, after Chock exited the limo and requested her to strive a spoonful of his “Chock-a-noodle soup.”
Joan chosen Chock for the primary one-on-one date, the place the pair loved a day at Disneyland. Throughout the night portion of the date, Joan and Chock related over their shared expertise of dropping a big different. (Joan’s late husband, John Vassos, died from most cancers in 2019, whereas Chock’s late fiancée, Kathy, died of mind most cancers after 9 years collectively.)
October 2024
Amid his journey on The Golden Bachelorette, Chock obtained information that his mother died after battling stage 4 most cancers. Throughout an October 2024 episode, he left the present to be together with his household earlier than returning to proceed pursuing his romance with Joan. Chock launched Joan to his household in Kansas throughout his hometown go to, the place they paid tribute to his late mother.
Whereas reflecting on her reference to Chock, Joan gushed in Us Weekly’s cowl story, “We began speaking and by no means stopped. It was really easy — to the purpose the place producers stated, ‘Hey, benefit from the environment. You’re simply speaking amongst yourselves.’”
November 2024
Chock popped the query to Joan with a Neil Lane diamond throughout The Golden Bachelorette finale, which aired in November 2024. Joan and Chock informed Us that they’re planning to throw an engagement get together in Los Angeles earlier than heading to New York Metropolis, the place they are going to go residence searching.
“This primary 12 months, clearly, now we have to type of work out life. Chock has a enterprise in Kansas. I’ve youngsters and grandkids and Maryland. I’m not leaving Maryland, however he does have obligations in Kansas,” Joan informed Us. “We all know that we’re gonna spend time in Maryland and in Kansas, however then now we have this actually enjoyable plan as a result of each of us have at all times dreamed — and we’re lastly at this bizarre stage in life for making this dream come true — that we dwell in an enormous metropolis, and, particularly, we’ve at all times wished to dwell in New York. So Chock stunned me and stated, ‘I would like us to go discover a place.’”