“Golden Bachelorette” Joan Vassos has some new bling on her left hand. The inaugural lead of the ABC show helping seniors find love concluded her season by giving Chock Chapple her final rose, who proposed to her with a Neil Lane ring. Vassos — a school administrator who has four children and two grandchildren — …

While Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple are planning on putting down some roots together in New York City, they clarified that they’re not moving in together. Rather, the Golden Bachelorette couple will split time between the Big Apple and their respective homes in Maryland and Kansas.

Chock Chapple proposed to Joan Vassos in the show's Nov. 13 finale and tells PEOPLE he found it "very tough" to hide the engagement from friends