Q: I was at dinner with 11 friends, when one proposed a toast. The friends felt obligated to clink glasses with everyone else. This process was laborious and time-consuming.

Today it is not important or necessary to clink your glasses especially if you are far from the celebrant. We encourage raising of glasses to toast, this is known as an air kiss. The importance of ...

Clinking glasses: After a toast has been given, gently clink glasses with those closest to you. If you are sitting down, don’t feel the need to leave your table and clink glasses with other people.

Alternatively, some modern etiquette coaches advise people to swap out clinking in favor of simply raising a glass during a toast in an effort to prevent damage to glassware and spills on carpets ...

After a toast, she insists on going to each person to touch their glass. This drives my husband crazy; he says that etiquette says you are just to raise your glass, or at most, “clink” with ...

1. Germany If you find yourself toasting in Germany, clink glasses with everyone and make sure that you make eye contact with them as you do. Then, say "Proust!" and drink up.

— Vox (@voxdotcom) September 28, 2015 Hosted by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the latter kicked off proceedings with a toast, in which he said "there's no such thing as a free lunch." True ...