Like engagement rings denote the engagementβ¦ Maybe itβs just English being its usual mess
Your logic makes sense. To OPβs point, though, you wear an engagement ring to show that you are engaged; a wedding ring to display you are married/wed. The argument for it being called when you receive it is weakened by the fact that most people remove their rings when an engagement is broken, or they get divorced. Or, they move the ring to a different finger, at which point itβs no longer an engagement or wedding ring, right? Itβs just a ring.
If the rings were named after the event of reception, theyβd still be called wedding and engagement rings even after a broken relationship. Theyβre βwasβ rings; ex-wedding-rings. No longer engagement rings.
So the more I think about it, the more Iβm with OP - the rings represent a state, and so wedding rings should be called βmarriageβ rings to represent the state of being engaged/married, rather than the singular event of the giving.