Thanks everyone.
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I am so happy.
Engagement here is a bit different. This is our 8th month dating and we decided to get engaged after talking about it. So then we had our families meet and approve of each other. It wasn't necessary, but culturally important... if it hadn't worked that way, we would have worked with it, but it is ideal in our family based culture for that to happen. Fortunately, our families really got along.
Then our parents set the date for the engagement party, where there was a ring exchanging ceremony etc.
Here once you are engaged, you both exchange rings. On wedding day, you exchange better, wedding type rings.