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Kiara Brockenbrough to marry Joel Brockenbrough in 2022 made national headlines<\/u> For its brilliant simplicity on a $500 budget.<\/p>\n
Four years later, one of her Instagram posts documented the birth of the couple’s child, full of the creative details the social media influencer’s followers had come to expect. The photos showed a pickup basketball game with pink and blue jerseys, a heart-shaped white cake and a Bible in which guests were invited to highlight favorite passages for the couple’s first child. In one image, a radiant Kiara waved towards the camera, with Joel’s hands on her stomach.<\/p>\n
The post of March 22 will be his last post. Kiara, 32, died on March 30, the same day her son Jonah was born.<\/p>\n
Although the circumstances of her death remain private, a representative of the family told The Times that media reports suggesting she died as a result of childbirth complications are not accurate.<\/p>\n
Joel Brokenbrough, 34, said doctors successfully delivered Jonah “in a truly miraculous way.” wrote on facebook<\/u><\/a>And the baby remains in stable condition in neonatal intensive care.<\/p>\n Her family is shocked by the sudden loss of a woman who had the gift of making those around her feel special.<\/p>\n A representative of the family said, “She was very cheerful. She had this smile and this poise about herself. She was confident, but yet not arrogant.” “She always made you feel accepted and wanted.”<\/p>\n The daughter of Lori Gill Lacey and Ronald Draper, Brokenbrough grew up in the Pomona area. She and Joel met in 2017 and married five years later.<\/p>\n In a year when the glamorous weddings of celebrity couples like Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker filled social media feeds, the ceremony Kiara planned caught people’s attention.<\/p>\n She found a dress for $47; He wore a $100 suit. They said their vows on a beautiful view of Angeles Crest Highway surrounded by a handful of family and friends.<\/p>\n This wedding went viral on social media and was shown prominently on Good Morning America<\/a>. It also captured who Kiara was as a person, family members said: beautiful, warm, with meticulous attention to details and focused on the things that mattered most.<\/p>\n “We’ve come a long way from how simple weddings used to be with the bride and groom coming together, bowing before God to be together, and vowing to each other to be together,” she says. told <\/u>Tea<\/u>those times<\/u> In 2022. \u201cI wanted to look like me and be me.\u201d<\/p>\n Kiara was awarded a Master’s degree in Digital Media Management from USC in May 2025 and opened a boutique marketing agency. Shortly thereafter, the couple temporarily relocated to West Virginia so that Joel could take the position of assistant coach at West Virginia State University men’s basketball team. When the season ended, they returned to the San Bernardino area and began preparing for the arrival of their son.<\/p>\n Becoming a mother “is what she always wanted,” the family representative said, adding that Kiara “was very deep in her faith until the very end. She never wavered.”<\/p>\n the family has Started a GoFundMe<\/u><\/a> For Joel and Jonah.<\/p>\n