Former Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos and fiancé Chock Chapple are soaking up some quality time together after spending more than a month apart.
“We are back in New York because it’s our fun place that we get to go,” Vassos, 62, said via Instagram on Saturday, October 4. “We haven’t seen each other in over a month. We did this twice this summer. It’s disturbing.”
Vassos shared that Chapple, 62, came up with the idea to spend time in New York which included seeing a billboard of Mel Owens for season 2 of The Golden Bachelor.
“A guy that was sitting there goes, ‘Is that you?’ No, no,” Chapple recalled.
Vassos and Chapple met on The Golden Bachelorette season 1 in 2024, where she ultimately accepted his proposal. After the show, the couple exclusively told Us Weekly that they were splitting their time between their hometowns in Maryland and Kansas while also apartment hunting in New York City.
“This first year, obviously, we have to kind of figure out life. Chock has a business in Kansas. I have kids and grandkids and Maryland. I’m not leaving Maryland, but he does have obligations in Kansas,” Vassos told Us in November 2024. “We know that we’re gonna spend time in Maryland and in Kansas, but then we have this really fun plan because both of us have always dreamed — and we’re finally at this weird stage in life for making this dream come true — that we live in a big city, and, specifically, we’ve always wanted to live in New York. So Chock surprised me and said, ‘I want us to go find a place.’”
The next year, Vassos shared that she and Chapple don’t feel in a rush to live together.
“It’s been crazy. It’s totally unexpected. We both thought when we came off the show, we’d just live a life as a couple. We didn’t realize that the opportunities would continue, which has been such a blessing,” she told Us in April. “We have lived a little bit of a jet set life and we don’t have to plan all of our meetings. When we don’t have anything to do for a TV or radio or podcast or whatever, we do have to figure out when we’re gonna get together, but we have so many of those weaved into him coming to Maryland or me going to Kansas that we actually haven’t spent a lot of times at either one of each other’s homes, which is exactly what we thought we would be doing.”
As the pair navigates life without the cameras, Vassos explained that she and Chapple are looking forward to tying the knot one day.
“Chock and I are in that part of it. It’s been great every second of it and it’s, maybe, solidified our relationship more and more and made that leap of faith seem like we absolutely did the right thing. We will get married, but we are not ready to plan a wedding out,” she told Us. “I’m meeting his friends, he’s meeting my friends. We’re spending time getting to know each other even more. There’s no rush. I don’t have a biological clock. I’m over that. I have four kids. It does [add] to the whole element of it. We’re not dying to build a house together. We both have homes. We have all those things that we’re not worried about doing. We’re just having fun being together. I want to say, like, ‘Let us be together! Let’s just have fun and date!’ We will get married, I just don’t know when.”
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