But Rachel said their marriage was more than about parenthood, adding: "I love the stability of our relationship. If there is one thing I can count on it's my family. We are so mainstream."
With her mohawk hairdo and her wedding band tattooed on her right biceps, Rachel looks anything but mainstream. The two are also an interracial couple who were married by a gay rabbi even though neither is Jewish.
To Rachel, they also typify the melding of the married world with the gay and lesbian world.
"It's the people sitting home with their cats who are going to get married," she said. "They are already in the mind-set."
Tricia Lewis, a 42-year-old legal assistant, said she relished the mundane little things that went along with her new marriage to Tanya Gulliver, a 34-year-old social justice worker at an Anglican church. She recalled entering a pharmacy near their home in Hamilton, Ontario, the other day to sign for a prescription for Tanya, who was waiting outside in their car.
"When I said to the pharmacist, `I'll sign for it because we're married,' he laughed his head off," she said.
"I said, `Dude, I hope you are laughing at something else.' He didn't know what to do, but I got the prescription," she said with a triumphant laugh.
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