Frankfurt is the closest travel hub to Weinheim with one of the biggest international airports in Europe: Frankfurt Main International Airport (FRA). There are several direct flights per day from the US East and West Coast to Frankfurt. Travel time from Frankfurt airport to the wedding venue is 1 -2 hours depending on the mode of transport.

Other nearby airports include Dusseldorf (DUS), Cologne (CGN), and Stuttgart (STR). Other destinations within 5 hours by high speed train include Paris (CDG) and Munich (MUC).

AIRFARE SEARCH is literally one of Heiko's most favorite hobbies.

Cheap-airfare-search is facilitated through a number of "hidden gems" of websites and applying some aviation insider-knowledge.

Aviation insider-knowledge part:
Newark (EWR) and John F. Kennedy airport in New York (JFK) are bigger hubs than Boston (BOS) or Albany (ALB) and therefore offer cheaper, more frequent, and more direct flights to Europe. The most convenient airport to get to the venue is Frankfurt (FRA) and it's cheaper than Munich (MUC). Dusseldorf (DUS) is also good, as there are good train connections to Frankfurt. Destination airports don't matter too much since you can get to Frankfurt from anywhere in Germany (and major European cities close to Frankfurt) by high-speed train for about USD 60. Never been to Paris? Now is your chance - JFK to CDG is about USD 600 round trip and you can get to Frankfurt by TGV (French for minblowingly fast and comfortable train - seriously, watch the train on youtube) in under 4h.

Website gem part:
THE CHEAPEST website in our experience is https://skiplagged.com . They work their magic for finding sometimes very creative itineraries via several (and sometimes worth-to-visit) layovers. They have "normal" flights too. We checked recently prices for a weekend trip for just the wedding (typically more expensive than longer trips) and found: JFK - FRA the day before the wedding and back the Same weekend for less than USD 700.

My favorite website is https://matrix.itasoftware.com which allows you to specify alternative departure / arrival airports, flexible days (+-2 days), and usually finds good connections. The only drawback is that you cannot actually book there, but must copy-paste the connections they find (literally, just copy paste the whole page when you selected a connection) into https://bookwithmatrix.com/ .

There is also https://flights.google.com which is a nice tool if you want to see if there are any nearby airports with convenient connections. We found a very cheap and convenient flight to-and-from Albany (ALB) this way before.

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