The Brentwood Event Planner Who Makes Celebrating Effortless

Shanna Manley grew up loving a party. The kind of childhood where picking out supplies with her sister was half the fun. Years later, planning her own children's birthdays turned into something bigger: an annual themed summer party at the family's Brentwood home, complete with inflatable waterslides, face painters, massages and fire dancers.

Guests kept asking the same question. Who planned this? Enough of them asked that EPIC Parties became a business in 2023. Since then the team has planned celebrations of every size, from intimate gatherings of a dozen guests to events running into the hundreds. The work has since covered baby showers, quinceañeras, murder mystery nights, backyard carnivals, tropical luaus and corporate galas, with a mission that has not changed since the first one: take the stress out of celebrating and put the magic back in. Most celebrations come together over six to eight weeks, though Shanna has arranged full events on as little as 48 hours notice, so a close date is worth a phone call rather than an assumption.

The entertainment roster grew with it. EPIC works with a network of professional performers that includes acts who have appeared on America's Got Talent and American Idol, alongside the fire artists, aerialists, stilt walkers and characters you will find across the over-the-top work.