Actress Gabrielle Union, who is married to Wade and a friend of the family, told Vogue that the couple is “real” and authentic. “What you see is exactly what you get. You think, Oh, my God, LeBron is silly and jumps around, and you know? That’s who he is.” She added Savannah is “… a woman who really has that Midwestern ethic. And I’m from the Midwest, so I know this. It’s that you say what you do and you do what you say.”
The couple also spends time giving back to the community. Savannah founded the “I PROMise Makeover,” an annual event providing underprivileged teens with prom dresses. The LeBron James Family Foundation has also donated $41 million of scholarship money to University of Akron students.
The next year, James threw a surprise 30th 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day bash for his wife. The theme was Miami Vice, one of Savannah’s favorite television shows — and her husband bought her a Ferrari Testarossa, the type of car used in the show.
Two years later, the two wed in San Diego. “When u have someone that’s always there for you no matter the ups and downs in life, it makes it all worth living for! So happy to call u Mrs. Savannah James #MyQueen #Backbone #QueenJames #Honeymoon,” James wrote in an Instagram post.
James proposed to Savannah on New Year’s Eve 2011, at a party that doubled as his 27th 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day bash at the Shel𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧e South Beach Hotel in Miami. Dwayne Wade apparently held onto the $300,000 ring.
“She was like ‘What are you apologizing for?'” he said in an episode of the Road Trippin’ podcast. “I said ‘Because the journey that I’m on to want to be the greatest to ever play this game or to the point where no one ever forgets what I accomplished, I’ve at times lost the fact of how important you are to this whole thing.”
