Who is Savannah Guthrie’s husband?
The NBC News’ chief legal correspondent is married to Michael “Mike” Feldman. Guthrie’s husband is a founding partner and managing director of The Glover Park Group. During the Clinton administration, Feldman “served in various leadership roles on behalf of Vice President Gore, including senior advisor and traveling chief of staff,” according to his bio on the GPG website.
How did Savannah Guthrie and Mike Feldman meet?
The broadcast journalist tagged along with a mutual friend to Feldman’s 40th birthday party in 2008, per PEOPLE. “I met a man named Mike Feldman at a party, a political consultant who made me laugh. We fell in love,” Guthrie wrote in a story for Guidepost. The duo reportedly began dating the following spring. The Princesses Wear Pants author split from her first husband Mark Orchard in January of 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Early on in their relationship, Feldman fixed Guthrie’s toilet, which she found “very attractive.” “Mike is extremely handy, which is one of the things I liked about him when I first met him. I thought, ‘Wow, here’s a sophisticated guy who grew up in the city but who can actually do things,’” she said in an interview with Drew and Jonathan Scott’s Reveal magazine. “My dad fixed our cars, which were old and broke down every other week, and I loved that Mike could do that, too. When we first started dating, he came over and fixed my toilet, which I found to be very attractive.”
When did Savannah Guthrie and Mike Feldman get engaged?
Feldman finally proposed to Guthrie in 2013 while on vacation in Turks and Caicos. Recalling their engagement years later on TODAY, the journalist said, “We have a crazy story.” “It got to the point where no one thought we were ever going to get married—including us, especially including me,” she told Jenna Bush Hager in 2019. “We were kind of at that point in life where it was like, gosh we’re either going to have to decide to get married or we’re just going to have to love each other, but let each other go and that’s kind of where we were.” However, the couple had longstanding plans to go on their trip. Guthrie admitted that in her mind she thought she would have to tell Feldman “that’s it.” On the Saturday morning of their trip, she told Feldman, “I was like, ‘Sweetie, I love you so much, but if we can’t decide, then I think we’ve decided.’” “Well little did I know he had bought a ring and was planning to propose that day,” she continued. Feldman understood, but wanted to have a nice day with Guthrie, who confessed that she “cried all day.” Little did she know, that evening he’d propose. “I think he is so courageous and amazing, because I think most guys who ask in this day and age, they know what the answer is, and he really didn’t,” she said. “But he did it anyway, and I just always thought that took such bravery and meant so much to me and by the way I thought about it for .2 seconds.” Guthrie added, “That’s like our favorite story to tell. He’s like she broke up with me on the day we got engaged. It’s funny, sometimes life gives you an unusual story.”
When did Savannah Guthrie and Mike Feldman get married?
The longtime couple said “I do” in March of 2014. Guthrie and Feldman exchanged vows in a ceremony near the bride’s hometown of Tucson, Ariz. Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Hoda Kotb and Willie Geist were among the guests.
Do Savannah Guthrie and Mike Feldman have kids?
At their 2014 wedding, the newlyweds announced that they were expecting their first child. “I—well, we—are four months pregnant,” the bride told guests at her wedding reception dinner, according to TODAY. The couple’s daughter Vale was born in August of 2014. During her first pregnancy, Guthrie blogged: “I’m 42 years old, and I honestly didn’t know if I’d ever get this chance. I’ve never been more thankful or felt more blessed from above. I know how lucky I am. For a long time, I think I was afraid to even let myself think about how much I hoped to one day have a baby. So that’s my mindset as my hubby and I embark on this adventure.” Guthrie and Feldman welcomed their second child, son Charles—known as Charley—in December of 2016. “When Vale was born, our happiness was complete," she wrote in a 2016 blog post. “The thought of getting to add to our family now is beyond every hope, dream and prayer I have ever had. It is not simply double the joy—it is joy multiplied infinitely.”
How Savannah Guthrie and her husband Mike Feldman are raising interfaith kids
Guthrie, who is Christian, and Feldman, who is Jewish, celebrate “all holidays” with their children. The TV star told Reveal magazine in 2020, “We light the Hanukkah candles and Mike is teaching our kids the prayers. They love Christmas—the presents and Santa Claus. We know that difficult questions may be coming, but we’re committed to raising them with full knowledge of their backgrounds. We hope as they get older, the kids will be inquisitive people of faith who find their own path.” Guthrie, according to the New York Times, attends a nondenominational church in New York City and is raising kids in her Christian faith as well as in the Jewish traditions of Feldman. The mom of two said, “Having a faith really helps you know your place in the world. And I really value that. And I find it endlessly fascinating. Believing in God, loving God, believing in a compassionate God, just absolutely spreads through everything I feel and the way I look at the world.” Next, find out who Michael Strahan is dating.
