Get the details on Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos’ 58-diamond engagement ring (Exclusive)

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

Joan Vassos made Bachelor Nation history when she joined as the first ever Golden Bachelorette. So of course her engagement ring had to be one for the books.

IN The Golden Bachelorette season finale, which aired on ABC on Nov. 13, Joan, 61, said “I do” to contestant Chock Chapple, who proposed with a custom Neil Lane Couture diamond ring.

To be exact, her new bling is a handmade emerald-cut diamond platinum ring set with two tapered diamond baguettes flanking a whopping 56 round brilliant-cut diamonds, arranged in Lane’s signature style.

In total, the sparkler weighs 4 carats. It also features Lane’s signature, a design element of the renowned jewelry designer who has created memorable custom pieces for Bachelor franchise for decades.

β€œTo celebrate their future together, I knew exactly the ring design that would perfectly symbolize Joan and Chock’s undeniable connection,” Lane tells PEOPLE.

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Joan Vassos’ engagement ring.

Neil Lane Couture


When she created the ring, Lane came who had met Joan before her debut The Golden Bachelorwas inspired by the bride-to-be’s “sophistication”, “elegance” and her “integrity”, a quality he said really showed when she made an unpredictable exit as a contestant on the first season of The golden bachelor in the third week due to a family related matter. (IN The women tell everything episode in November 2023, she revealed that her daughter experienced postpartum depression after the birth of her baby.)

“I wanted to make a ring that was really classic,” Lane explains, adding that he didn’t necessarily want to go over the top with diamonds (although he does reveal that Joan’s rock is one of the “bigger rings” he has made), but rather display the jewels in an elevated “harmonious” manner. He also drew some influence from the Art Deco period of the 1920s.

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Joan Vassos and Chock.

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Chock was “obsessed” with the design, Lane explains, and knew it was the one.

“He looked at the ring, he thought about her,” he says. “It was just one of those things that clicked. I think he understood the vibrations and the energy that went into that ring.”

Lane has nothing but love and best wishes for the couple as they embark on their new chapter together.

“This ring’s stunning beauty perfectly encapsulates Joan’s journey as the first ever Golden Bachelorette, and I wish her and Chock nothing but the best as they enter the next phase of their relationship together,” says Lane.

He calls their “magical” journey the perfect “trifecta: the couple, the ring and the great love.”