In 2018, Beyoncé staged what is still regarded as one of Coachella’s greatest ever sets, but for 30-year-old, Los Angeles-based hairstylist Sierra Kener, the festival is memorable for another reason: it’s where met her future husband, creative director Josh Mehl. “I was partying at the Madison Club, and he was golfing,” she says. “I always joke that he saw me, dropped his clubs and came running into the party.” The reality, she admits, was less cinematic. “No, there weren’t immediate sparks, more of a ‘friends’ situation. But the groundwork was laid.” It would be a year before Josh, 34, arranged a date on a pop-up roller-skating rink at Manhattan members’s club Ludlow House. “I was so bad at skating, and I just remember wanting to hold his hand the whole time. Then we went for ice cream, then to a rooftop, and then,” she says, laughing, “he didn’t kiss me. But that’s cool!”
Their relationship burnt slowly with Josh away on work for extended periods of time, meaning they made things official at the six-month mark. “We’ve been consistent ever since,” says Sierra. “And we never broke up once, which is honestly a blessing considering how crazy our lives are.” After a happy six years, Josh proposed during a Fourth of July holiday with friends at the mountainous Suncadia Resort in Washington in 2025. There, after a day of jet-skiing around the foothills, the couple returned to their room to get ready for dinner. Josh explained that one of their friends had hired a private chef (“Nothing out of the ordinary, he’s boujier than us”), ahead of presenting Sierra with a polka-dot Reformation dress (“He does things like that – so sweet!”) and a pair of heels packed from the depths of her wardrobe (“…Okay?”) Her suspicions only grew when she spotted one of their pals in the lift wearing leggings. “Josh was like, ‘Maybe she didn’t get the memo..? Let’s go and look at this viewpoint.’ And then the world stopped on its axis.” What was ultimately revealed to be a celebration dinner erupted in cheers once Sierra arrived, sporting the cushion-cut diamond ring that Josh had designed alongside T Anthony jewellers in Seattle. “He’s always had style.”
