Joan Vassos, Chock Chapple. Disney/Christopher Willard
Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos and her fiancé, Chock Chapple, returned to where it all began.
The two are enjoying some time together in Disneyland, the location of their first one-on-one date on The Golden Bachelorette.
Joan and Chock, both 61, posed for pics around the park with their Bachelor Nation friends, including Kathy Swarts, Susan Noles and Nancy Hulkower from The Golden Bachelor.
“Had the most magical day with my friends & fiancé at Disneyland!! 💫,” Joan wrote in the December 6 Instagram carousel. “Thank you so much to the @iheartradio team and @sugarmanamy for making it so magical! Shout out to our tour guide Jeff for being the best ever! 🫶 It was so nice to go back to the place where I first fell in love with Chock and get to share that experience with my friends. Next up… @iheartjingleball !!”
Disney/Christopher Willard The first-ever Golden Bachelorette, Joan Vassos, found her happily ever after with Chock Chapple. Joan met 24 men on the ABC reality show, which premiered in September 2024, and ultimately accepted a proposal from Chock on the beaches of Bora Bora. “From our first date in Disneyland, I thought I saw a future […]
They also posted a video of just the two of them, where Joan told followers, “This is where we had our first date ever and it’s actually where I fell in love with Chock.”
She captioned the video, “Back where it all began…”
This isn’t the first time Joan has discussed the significance of Disneyland to her relationship with Chock. In an Us Weekly cover story released on November 20, Joan opened up about the immediate connection she felt with the insurance executive.
“We had such a great connection on the Disneyland date, which was one week into the season. It was super early and I did feel like it was too good to be true,” she said. “I thought, ‘There’s going be a red flag eventually.’”
But that red flag never came, despite her admitting that she was searching for one.
“I was actually really looking for that, but it only ever got better instead of worse,” she continued. “At the end, I was so confident. I knew I was taking a leap of faith, but I felt really confident in my decision because you do get to know each other pretty well.”
Fresh off the November finale of The Golden Bachelorette, the two spent Thanksgiving with each other and their respective families.
“First Thanksgiving in Maryland with the Vassos crew and Chapple kids,” they wrote in a joint post via Instagram on Monday, December 2. “So much to be thankful for — family, laughter, and the start of new traditions.”
Next up, the couple tells Us they plan to find an apartment together in New York City. Joan and Chock also plan on spending time together in their home states of Maryland and Kansas, respectively.
