Joan Vassos Gets Engaged in The Golden Bachelorette Finale: Find Out Who Popped the Big Question

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the November 13 season finale The Golden Bachelor.

Joan Vassos found the one!

The The Golden Bachelor’with the leading lady left her journey with a ring on her hand in the November 13 season finale. After being faced with a “life-changing decision”, viewers saw Joan say yes to Chock’s proposal in Bora Bora.

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The last episode left Joan to choose between Chock and Guy, who Joan proposed to with great feelings.

But before Guy could meet her family, she went to his hotel room and broke things off.

Because of this, Joan was ready to tell Chock that she loved him.

When Joan and Chock met on the beach, Chock started by telling Joan how much he loved her.

“I am so absolutely blessed to be in your life and you to be in mine,” he began. “We had a magical trip. It was absolutely amazing. And you are the most gifted, selfless woman I have ever met.”

From left: Guy, Joan and Chock.

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He told Joan that he would honor her late husband by loving her every day. “That’s the most important thing to me. And Joan, you’ll never be invisible to me. I’ll tell you I love you every day, I promise.”

He concluded: “I still think I’m in a dream and I’m about to wake up. But Joan, I love you and I want you in my life.”

Joan told Chock that a year and a half ago she decided she needed love in her life. “Ever since our first date at Disneyland, I thought I saw a future with you. And it’s the first time I’ve actually envisioned a future with someone else in a very long time,” she shared.

When Chock left because of her mother’s death, she said she was “worried” he wouldn’t come back. “That’s when I realized I couldn’t have done this trip without you,” Joan said. “You made me feel comfortable, you made me feel safe, I felt like we could care for each other and I knew you would never hurt me. That’s when I start to imagine our future a little more vividly.”

“We are living proof that no matter what life throws at you, there is still hope, even at our age. I have waited until this moment, in this incredible location, to tell you that I love you and that I want to spend the rest of my life with you . I want to wake up next to you in the morning and I want to kiss you when I go to bed at night.”

Then Chock got down on one knee and asked a question. “I’ve been waiting forever to do this,” he said. “Joan, will you marry me?”

“Of course I’ll marry you,” Joan replied.

Chock and Joan Vassos.

Disney/Gilles Mingasson

Chock and Joan have a special bond from the start, with the insurance executive scoring the season’s first one-on-one date. The two initially bonded over the deaths of loved ones — Chock’s fiance Kathy died five months after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, and Joan’s husband of 32 years, John, died of pancreatic cancer in 2021.

“He’s a gentleman,” Joan said of why she chose Chock as her first date. “He’s kind and I know that his family is important to him just like it is to me.”

The pair continued to develop a deep bond throughout the season, and when hometowns came around, Chock’s family also saw sparks fly.

“He had no doubt it was him,” his son Tyler said. “That he’s so sure of who he loves, I love to see that.”

After Chock called it “one of the best days of my life,” Joan agreed.

“There’s something real here,” she told him at the end of the day. “Now I see the future. A big black hole… doesn’t look like a big black hole anymore.”

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From the fantasy suites, Chock was known to have big feelings for Joan, telling host Jesse Palmer, “I’m in love with her.”

When Jesse asked Chock how he saw the show ending, he said, “It’s either going to end as an engagement or I’m going to break my heart.”

Joan then revealed that Chock played a role in her life that she didn’t expect: “I started to feel unnoticed when John passed away, so I think sometimes when you’re seen, you just need one person to see you. Chock makes me seen.”

Joan Vassos and Chock.

Disney/Gilles Mingasson

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Earlier this month, Joan opened up to PEOPLE about how the show helped her overcome lingering feelings of grief surrounding her late husband. She explained that she was finally able to move forward, after realizing that she could hold love for more than one person in her heart.

“I evolved a lot during the season,” she said. “I came there thinking I was so ready to find love, and then I realized it was a much different path than I thought it would be. But I feel like I’ve grown up and I don’t think I’d ever be where I am today if I hadn’t done this, because it gave me the motivation to go through some of those emotions quickly because I wanted to end it with someone.”

Joan added that she ended up “exactly where I should have been”.

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