As a bridesmaid in my younger days, I used to believe that when people got married the man said to the woman: "I take you to be my awful wedded wife".
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I always thought that it was "Afully Wedded Wife" Not "lawfully wedded wife"— Sarah
- i used to think that the pope was married but also i thought howcome her wife never appeared on TV— jp
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- I used to believe that a widower was a guy who killed married husbands to make thier wife a widow— Jessica
- I used to believe that woman had to pay to keep their last name when they got married!!!!!!!— Imaginative_Kidd
- I used to believe that the man had to be taller the the woman to married her.Anon