The Golden Bachelorette winner Chock Chapple has explained why wedding planning is still "on hold" with Joan Vassos.

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Chock and Joan, whose engagement aired on The Golden Bachelorette finale in November 2024, previously said they would "likely" get married in 2025, but according to Chock, that's not going to happen.

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"Her son's getting married in the summer, and then another [son of Joan] is probably going to get engaged, so we're like, 'Let's just put [a wedding] on hold for now,'" Chock told Parade in a recent interview.

Joan welcomed four kids with her late husband John Vassos, who passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer in 2021.

"Nick, her oldest, is getting married, and then she's waiting, but she thinks Luke's going to get engaged. I think they've been looking at rings, so it's all good," Chock revealed.

Chock shared of his fiancee, "She's like, 'I don't want to compete with my son's wedding and a lot going on.' Our schedule's booked through October, so it's just crazy busy."

Chock said he'll definitely be Joan's date to Nick's wedding, adding, "They've got the invitations out. We're very much looking forward to it."

In terms of his own wedding, Chock said fans are asking him all the time when he's going to marry Joan.

"As you get older, it's really not that important," Chock said with a smile. "We want to get married, but the timing just needs to be right."

Chock also assured fans that he and Joan are in constant communication and love each other dearly.

"We still talk two to three times a day [on weekdays], easy. Weekends maybe three or four times. She was in Wichita, and then we were just in the Dominican Republic, and I will go there [to Maryland]... for a bunch of birthdays," Chock shared.

He added, "So we see each other at least every other week and it's going very well. She's a great lady!"

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Joan previously told Parade that she's very confident her romance with Chock will last forever.

"Everybody looks at this like... 'There's no way this can work because you're not together every minute.' We don't feel the same way about it," Joan explained.

"We feel like we both have pretty rich lives in our 60s. You find somebody [in their golden years] and chances are they have stuff going on. They have family or they have jobs or they have friend groups, or they have hobbies."

The Golden Bachelorette star therefore concluded, "So you might not need to spend every waking moment together or you might not need to live in the same city, and that's how we feel right now about it."

Joan told Parade in February that the idea of planning a wedding seemed "overwhelming" to her, especially since she and Chock were still getting to know each other's family and friends.

But Joan insisted her relationship with Chock was strong and thriving.

"I fall more and more in love with him every day," Joan gushed of her fiance.

"He has a great sense of humor. He's an easy person to be around. He's funny. My kids adore him. My grandson, [the] last time Chock was leaving, he said, 'I don't want that guy to go.' He requires nothing."

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Joan added how Chock is "very kind" and is good at expressing his love.

"He's literally the easiest person to have around. He requires nothing. He is just go with the flow, he doesn't get mad about anything, he stresses about nothing, which is so weird to me because I'm a little type A and I stress about everything," Joan said.

Joan and Chock are still hunting for an apartment in New York City, and it's possible they may wed in 2026.

Joan recently threw shade at The Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist for tying the knot in January 2024, just a few months after their marriage proposal aired on ABC, and then filing for divorce in April 2024.

Joan said during the January 22 episode of the "Two Jersey Js" podcast, "I think that we all kind of maybe learned a lesson from Gerry and Theresa that maybe that was too quick and they probably don't want to make that mistake again."

"I certainly am not in any rush to get married. I am actually really happy right now, just not having anything to do," she added.

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