When I got married, my mother gave me my stocking. When my son was dating his wife and she started feeling like a member of the family, I made a stocking for her. My two boys already had stockings. When my son and DIL married, I gave each of them their stockings to hang next to their own fireplace. My other son is in college, but when he is more settled, wife or not, I'll give him his stocking too.