I'm looking for the perfect wedding reading for my upcoming beach
wedding ceremony. I've already done a search and can't find anything
that suits me.  Here are the stats:

boy: journalist, libertarian, non-religious, irish origin
girl: lawyer, non-religious, left-center, german-arabic origin
wedding: Big Sur area, beach ceremony, "rustic elegant" reception,
non-traditional guests

 I want something different from the usual readings. *No religion
please*.    We're happy to have alternative readings from books,
songs, movies, poems.  Also citations to legal cases & texts would be
neat (as in Goodridge vs. Department of Health's "Marriage is a vital
social institution".  The boy would appreciate some
libertarian-leaning readings, but I'm not so sure...

I've already found "Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and
anything on about.com.

Please no "home-made" readings.

One of my favorite wedding readings is an excerpt from Khalil Gibran's
"The Prophet." This was read at my own wedding, on July 4, 1980. It
worked. ;-)

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. 
Let it rather be a moving sea between 
the shores of your souls. 

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. 
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. 

Sing and dance together and be joyous, 
but let each of you be alone, 

Even as the strings of a lute are alone 
though they quiver with the same music. 

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. 
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. 

And stand together, yet not too near together. 
For the pillars of the temple stand apart, 

And the oak tree and the cypress 
grow not in each other's shadow.

That's a good one, but not perfect -- I already found it on earlier
about.com.  Thanks for trying!

I know you said you didn't want anything home-made, but I am rather
proud of this little verse, and I thought I'd pass it along.

A DOUBLE-SINGULARITY

Somewhere among the wantings and the takings,
Midway between the dreamings and the true,
Half the way through the mendings and the breakings,
Somehow I found I was in love with you.

We join, and the space-time fabric sways beneath us,
Bending the long arcs of the circling days.
Spiral-spun nebulae of flame enwreathe us,
Luring all light into our loving gaze.

Einstein was right: space curves like graceful fingers
Twining upon itself, you within me.
We are a Moebius strip. Our loving lingers:
Alpha Omega Alpha Infinity.

Meet me between delight and consternation,
Hold me amid the terrors and the joy.
Hovering in suspended animation,
We are the Universe. Time is our toy.

Yeah, that passage from THE PROPHET is beautiful, but it's also a very
popular choice at weddings (especially those wanting to avoid highly
religious readings.)

Similarly, one of my favorites, William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 is a
great piece ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
impediments...") but, again, that might be deemed too obvious or
common for your desires.

I confess I'm intrigued by the idea of what a "libertarian-leaning"
reading might be. Among the U.S. Founding Fathers, John Adams
exchanged much correspondence with Abigail Adams, through their
courtship as well as marriage. Perhaps there's a passage in their
letters that you'd like. More recently, Ronald Reagan (another icon to
many libertarians) apparently wrote many romantic letters to Nancy
Reagan--maybe there's something there for you.

Of course, what wedding reading is perfect for you depends a lot on,
well, you. Maybe something from one of your favorite childhood books?