Golden Bachelorette Couple Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple Share Wedding Planning Update

Chock Chapple and Joan Vassos. Photo:River Callaway/Billboard via Getty
Golden Bachelorette stars Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple aren’t in a rush to make it down the aisle. 

The couple — who got engaged in the finale of the ABC show in Bora Bora — shared an update on their nuptials in an interview with Bachelor Nation, and noted that they are taking it slow when it comes to planning everything out.

“Yeah! I think we’re really enjoying where we are right now, and I think if we put that pressure on us [to wedding plan], we won’t enjoy what we’re doing now,” Vassos, 61, said. “So there’s no rush.” 

“We don’t have a biological clock, we’re not having kids, so I think when the time is right we’ll know it and we’ll go and do it! But right now what we’re doing is perfect,” she added. 

Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple in Bora Bora.Disney/Gilles Mingasson
Chapple added that the pair already have a lot on their plate — including a few weddings and possibly a future engagement on the calendar courtesy of Vassos’ four children — Nicholas, Erica, Allison and Luke — whom she shares with her late husband, John Vassos.

“Joan has a son getting married this summer and then probably another one getting engaged,” he shared.

Vassos added, “Yeah, so I have family weddings I’m dealing with, which is wonderful and all happy things. So we’re gonna take a back seat to all that.”

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The pair — who are based in Maryland and Kansas — also opened up about making their long-distance relationship work. Vassos revealed that the pair “see each other like every other week,” but “make an effort” to make things work. 

“We kind of combine our schedules every month and see where we can see each other, so it’s been great,” she explained. “... And if we don’t see each other in about 14 days, we both start to miss each other. So that 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' is really true.”

Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple.Disney/Christopher Willard
Chapple noted they were “always checking” their calendars to find moments where they could be together, despite their busy family lives or work. He shared, “The secret, from my aspect, is Joan’s in charge. So I just show up and it works out that way.”

“It does take effort; it’s not as easy as, ‘Hey, let’s get together tonight because you’re right down the road,’ so you have to make an effort,” Vassos added. “But it’s actually a fun way to kind of do it,” the reality star continued. “... We can meet in fun places. Like, we’ve been to Cancún, and we meet in L.A. all the time, we go to New York. So with our meetings, we find something fun to do. We get great opportunities and we try to make it work for us.”

“But you still have a life. Just because we’re engaged and we’re in love and I plan to spend my future with him, doesn’t mean you have to spend every minute together,” she added.