Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in a custom-made gown next to her 20-year-old son following an "over the top" memorial service with a tightly controlled guest list, said a friend helping to organize the memorial. The memorial service, with about 300 guests at an undisclosed church, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and singing from a well-known performer whose name organizers aren't ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif. "It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off," Simpson told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. "Of course it will be over the top because it's Anna Nicole." Simpson's partner, Pol Atteu, has designed more than a dozen gowns for Smith, including the one in which she was to be buried in a "very elegant" casket that will most likely be closed, he said. He declined to describe the dress. Simpson said each "faction" — Stern, Arthur and Birkhead — had to submit a guest list in advance and each would be limited to 100 people at the church service. "It will be something very beautiful, very private, very over the top and very pink," he said. The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said.
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That is how she should go out. And nice to see Howard K Stern is letting Larry Birkhead and her mom each have an equal amount of people at the funeral. But part of me wonders what he is up to? With all that he has put them through, it just seems so weird that now he is willing to compromise now… you know like the saying nothing good in life is free?
