The engagement was called off in January 2003.

She also retains her given name and her family name, and she is free to manage and dispose of her finances, to conclude contracts and to take loans, as well as to conduct any legal transaction.

Rituals of engagement and marriage differed between the different islands but generally a marriage was formalized when exchanges of gifts were made accompanied with the payment of a bride price which was presented from the bridegroom's family to the bride's family.