lead to the altar

She knew pretty early that this is a road that was going to lead to the altar.

I would act fair with her, for I'd be loath To lead to the altar an unwilling bride In sight of all my vassals and retainers.

The strange disappearance of Julia Mallow became almost historical, and it was only revived a little as a topic of conversation, when it was announced that Mr Perry-Morton had returned with his sisters from their long sojourn in Venice, and soon after it was rumoured in paragraphs that the talented leader of a certain clique was about to lead to the altar the daughter of a most distinguished member of the artistic world.

For my part, however, I should never lead to the altar, or into my home as my wife, any woman who wasn't capable of at least completing any sentence which death should knock me over with his hour-glass in the middle of,--or who wouldn't be unspeakably delighted when I read to her learned G�ttingen gazettes, or universal German magazines, in which I was bepraised, more than I deserved perhaps.

The middle-aged lover of the countess would not, for anything in the world, have delegated his right to lead to the altar, as her "father of honor," her whom more and more he regarded as his daughter.