diff --git a/spacy/__init__.py b/spacy/__init__.py
index 556027a42..191d5970c 100644
--- a/spacy/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from . import util
 from .en import English
 
 
-def load(name, via=None):
+def load(name, via=None, vectors_name=None):
     package = util.get_package_by_name(name, via=via)
-    return English(package=package)
+    vectors_package = util.get_package_by_name(vectors_name, via=via)
+    return English(package=package, vectors_package=vectors_package)
diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index ae8aa4560..157f7d040 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class Language(object):
         return {0: {'PER': True, 'LOC': True, 'ORG': True, 'MISC': True}}
 
     @classmethod
-    def default_vocab(cls, package, get_lex_attr=None):
+    def default_vocab(cls, package, get_lex_attr=None, vectors_package=None):
         if get_lex_attr is None:
             if package.has_file('vocab', 'oov_prob'):
                 with package.open(('vocab', 'oov_prob')) as file_:
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ class Language(object):
             else:
                 get_lex_attr = cls.default_lex_attrs()
         if hasattr(package, 'dir_path'):
-            return Vocab.from_package(package, get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr)
+            return Vocab.from_package(package, get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr,
+                vectors_package=vectors_package)
         else:
             return Vocab.load(package, get_lex_attr)
 
@@ -198,7 +199,8 @@ class Language(object):
         matcher=None,
         serializer=None,
         load_vectors=True,
-        package=None):
+        package=None,
+        vectors_package=None):
         """
            a model can be specified:
 
@@ -228,7 +230,7 @@ class Language(object):
             warn("load_vectors is deprecated", DeprecationWarning)
 
         if vocab in (None, True):
-            vocab = self.default_vocab(package)
+            vocab = self.default_vocab(package, vectors_package=vectors_package)
         self.vocab = vocab
         if tokenizer in (None, True):
             tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_package(package, self.vocab)
diff --git a/spacy/vocab.pyx b/spacy/vocab.pyx
index a0a07f305..de4909f30 100644
--- a/spacy/vocab.pyx
+++ b/spacy/vocab.pyx
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ cdef class Vocab:
         return cls.from_package(get_package(data_dir), get_lex_attr=get_lex_attr)
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_package(cls, package, get_lex_attr=None):
+    def from_package(cls, package, get_lex_attr=None, vectors_package=None):
         tag_map = package.load_json(('vocab', 'tag_map.json'), default={})
 
         lemmatizer = Lemmatizer.from_package(package)
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ cdef class Vocab:
             self.strings.load(file_)
         self.load_lexemes(package.file_path('vocab', 'lexemes.bin'))
 
-        if package.has_file('vocab', 'vec.bin'):
+        if vectors_package and vectors_package.has_file('vocab', 'vec.bin'):
+            self.vectors_length = self.load_vectors_from_bin_loc(
+                vectors_package.file_path('vocab', 'vec.bin'))
+        elif package.has_file('vocab', 'vec.bin'):
             self.vectors_length = self.load_vectors_from_bin_loc(
                 package.file_path('vocab', 'vec.bin'))
         return self