diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/api/python/PythonMLLibAPI.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/api/python/PythonMLLibAPI.scala
index 458fab48fef5a..afc5ee742ba74 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/api/python/PythonMLLibAPI.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/api/python/PythonMLLibAPI.scala
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import scala.language.existentials
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
 import net.razorvine.pickle._
+import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
 
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.{JavaRDD, JavaSparkContext}
 import org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil
@@ -641,6 +642,8 @@ private[python] class PythonMLLibAPI extends Serializable {
     def getVectors: JMap[String, JList[Float]] = {
       model.getVectors.map({case (k, v) => (k, v.toList.asJava)}).asJava
     }
+
+    def save(sc: SparkContext, path: String) = model.save(sc, path)
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/python/pyspark/mllib/feature.py b/python/pyspark/mllib/feature.py
index b5138773fd61b..e659af33f462b 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/mllib/feature.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/mllib/feature.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 from pyspark.mllib.linalg import (
     Vector, Vectors, DenseVector, SparseVector, _convert_to_vector)
 from pyspark.mllib.regression import LabeledPoint
+from pyspark.mllib.util import JavaLoader, JavaSaveable
 
 __all__ = ['Normalizer', 'StandardScalerModel', 'StandardScaler',
            'HashingTF', 'IDFModel', 'IDF', 'Word2Vec', 'Word2VecModel',
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@ def fit(self, dataset):
         return IDFModel(jmodel)
 
 
-class Word2VecModel(JavaVectorTransformer):
+class Word2VecModel(JavaVectorTransformer, JavaSaveable, JavaLoader):
     """
     class for Word2Vec model
     """
@@ -455,6 +456,12 @@ def getVectors(self):
         """
         return self.call("getVectors")
 
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, sc, path):
+        jmodel = sc._jvm.org.apache.spark.mllib.feature \
+            .Word2VecModel.load(sc._jsc.sc(), path)
+        return Word2VecModel(jmodel)
+
 
 @ignore_unicode_prefix
 class Word2Vec(object):
@@ -488,6 +495,17 @@ class Word2Vec(object):
     >>> syms = model.findSynonyms(vec, 2)
     >>> [s[0] for s in syms]
     [u'b', u'c']
+
+    >>> import os, tempfile
+    >>> path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    >>> model.save(sc, path)
+    >>> sameModel = Word2VecModel.load(sc, path)
+    >>> model.transform("a") == sameModel.transform("a")
+    True
+    >>> try:
+    ...     os.removedirs(path)
+    ... except OSError:
+    ...     pass
     """
     def __init__(self):
         """