Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos and her fiancé Chock Chapple. Photo:Disney/Christopher Willard
Bachelor Nation might be seeing more of Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos and her fiancé Chock Chapple on their TV screens.
After getting engaged to Chapple, 60, during the Nov. 13 finale of The Golden Bachelorette, Vassos, 61, tells PEOPLE she’d consider saying “I do” to the insurance executive on television.
“I originally said that I wanted for it to be small with just our friends and family, but as I think a little bit more about it, I somewhat think that maybe we would do a televised wedding,” Vassos says in a joint interview with Chapple. “I feel like everybody that has gone through this whole journey with us, has been with us for the last few months watching this all unfold, it'd be fun for them to see Chapter 2 of us actually starting a life together. They deserve to see the next part of this.”
But right now, the newly engaged couple just wants to enjoy being able to take their relationship public.
“We haven't put a ton of thought in the wedding,” Vassos says. “We're really looking forward to just being a couple out in the world and being just normal people living life for at least a couple of months, and then we'll start thinking wedding.”
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Vassos admitted on the Nov. 14 episode of the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast that she and Chapple really didn’t know each other that well after getting engaged. But she explains to PEOPLE that they “had a connection really early” that made her confident in saying “yes” when Chapple got down on one knee in Bora Bora.
“That initial confidence and how easy we were together was really evident at the Disneyland date,” Vassos says of her first one-on-one date with Chapple. “After that, it built very quickly and we got to know each other pretty well, the important stuff. Then once we were engaged, it was time to find out the other stuff, but the important stuff we already had settled.”
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Chock Chapple proposes to Joan Vassos on 'The Golden Bachelortte' season 1.Disney/Gilles Mingasson
Chapple’s confidence in his relationship with Vassos never wavered. “By the time we got to Bora Bora, I knew I loved her and wanted to spend the rest of my life with her,” he says.
The pair say they haven’t had a single disagreement since leaving Bora Bora. “He is a really easy person to live with,” Vassos says. “He's very easygoing, so I give all the credit to him, honestly.”
The father of two chimes in, “I'm very trainable!”
Chapple and Vassos have only loved everything they’ve gotten to know about one another since filming ended. “I knew she was compassionate, smart, intelligent — I didn't know how intelligent she really was until we got to spend all this time together, and I've been thoroughly impressed,” Chapple says. “Joan said this of me, one of my characteristics is that I'm a fixer. She's a fixer as well, and we're handling life just beautifully as we go through.”
Vassos likes that her fiancé gives her a “feeling of safety."
“I know if I have anything that's challenging my life that he will step in and try to help me,” the mother of four says. “That's really what you miss when you lose your partner, is that you do everything alone. Now I feel like I truly have a partner.”
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