Wedding Invitation Suite: Invitation gold sleeve

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Gold tissue paper sleeve containing wedding invitation [2018.30.1e] designed by Hadiya Williams for the wedding of Shantrelle Lewis and Oluwatoyin Lawson. The gold sleeve opens at the top and has a semi-circle cut out at the center. The front of the sleeve has a gold wax stamp with a lion insignia. The lion is in silhouette standing on its hind legs, one leg rests on a crescent moon while his arms hold a sun with radiating rays. The wax stamp connects the black string that wraps around the object twice to the sleeve. The string is tied together on the back side.

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