We are Candelaria & Yanet Manzano, owners and designers at Studio Heart Events. We are creative, detail-oriented mother/daughter event imagineers that design, plan, and produce exclusive events. Our introduction to events was an unusual one. Twenty years ago, we suffered a devastating house fire and lost everything. We got a lot of help from The Red Cross to recover. Hence, to pay back and help other families in need, we decided to create a fundraising event that included Art, performances, and food. The event was a great success, and we both enjoyed the process of planning it. However, despite great feedback, going into event planning never entered our minds at that point. A year later, disaster struck again when a flood left us in the street with nothing but the clothing on our backs. So, after going through the recovery process again, we decided to come back stronger and, this time, plan a more significant fundraising event by adding a fashion show and music concert.

After experiencing loss over and over, we relied on the happy memories with family and friends and celebrations in our lives to remind us that life WAS beautiful and worth the effort to get up and try again. Planning those fundraising events was therapy at the time. It allowed us to tell our story and turn tragedy into beauty, giving birth to a lifetime passion for telling stories and creating beautiful core memories through event planning and design.

After that, Mom and I started learning about the event industry and its intricacies through event photography, establishing Studio Heart in 2004. After a couple of years of learning everything about weddings & events from the inside out, we felt ready to take on our destiny and become full-time event planners and designers. Eighteen years later, our passion for making every milestone celebration tell a unique story that creates a happy core memory for our clients still burns bright and true.

Throughout these years, we are most proud of our Studio Heart Family!!! Our clients are the core of our business and the fuel that gives our purpose in life meaning. They come to us and allow us into their world, trust us with their stories, dreams, and wishes and allow us full reign to bring them to life in the celebrations we create for them. We see our clients grow from newlyweds to families to business owners and career men and women and be a part of their milestones. Then, we get to do it all over again with their children and their children's children. For some of our oldest Studio Heart families, we have gone into 3 generation celebrations. There is no bigger honor or inspiration to us than that.