I asked my Mum what a honeymoon was for. She said it was so the bride and groom could get to know each other. I therefore thought that when you got married the couple didn't know each other.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when a couple got married and went on their honeymoon, they took a vacation to the moon.— Jen
- I used to think Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were a married couple. — l stu electtirc boogaloo
- I thought that you actually went to the moon on your honeymoon. — Moonwalker
- When I was little I thought that a honeymoon was when the Husband and wife went to the moon and eat honey.— AmAnDa
- I thought the bridal veil was so that the groom wouldn't see who he was marrying.— Aretia
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson