During our first year in Hanoi, we learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would visit, and that when she and her daughter Jane traveled they liked to stay in the homes of ambassadors.
Encouraged by a friend, I wrote and asked if, while she stayed with us, the justice might consider officiating over a brief ceremony to renew our marriage vows.
She replied that she would be delighted. Justice Ginsburg’s August 2015 visit came a few weeks after the Supreme Court decision on Obergefell v.
Hodges, which enabled our union to be recognized in all 50 states. At a press conference in our home, Justice Ginsburg held in her hands a worn copy of the U.S.