diff --git a/haystack/retriever/dense.py b/haystack/retriever/dense.py
index a41c8b9f5..76fdd2a01 100644
--- a/haystack/retriever/dense.py
+++ b/haystack/retriever/dense.py
@@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ class DensePassageRetriever(BaseRetriever):
               grad_acc_steps: int = 1,
               optimizer_name: str = "TransformersAdamW",
               optimizer_correct_bias: bool = True,
-              save_dir: str = "../saved_models/dpr-tutorial",
-              query_encoder_save_dir: str = "lm1",
-              passage_encoder_save_dir: str = "lm2"
+              save_dir: str = "../saved_models/dpr",
+              query_encoder_save_dir: str = "query_encoder",
+              passage_encoder_save_dir: str = "passage_encoder"
               ):
         """
         train a DensePassageRetrieval model
@@ -317,20 +317,24 @@ class DensePassageRetriever(BaseRetriever):
         trainer.train()
 
         self.model.save(Path(save_dir), lm1_name=query_encoder_save_dir, lm2_name=passage_encoder_save_dir)
-        self.processor.save(Path(save_dir))
+        self.query_tokenizer.save_pretrained(f"{save_dir}/{query_encoder_save_dir}")
+        self.passage_tokenizer.save_pretrained(f"{save_dir}/{passage_encoder_save_dir}")
 
-    def save(self, save_dir: Union[Path, str]):
+    def save(self, save_dir: Union[Path, str], query_encoder_dir: str = "query_encoder",
+             passage_encoder_dir: str = "passage_encoder"):
         """
         Save DensePassageRetriever to the specified directory.
 
         :param save_dir: Directory to save to.
+        :param query_encoder_dir: Directory in save_dir that contains query encoder model.
+        :param passage_encoder_dir: Directory in save_dir that contains passage encoder model.
         :return: None
         """
         save_dir = Path(save_dir)
-        self.model.save(save_dir, lm1_name="query_encoder", lm2_name="passage_encoder")
+        self.model.save(save_dir, lm1_name=query_encoder_dir, lm2_name=passage_encoder_dir)
         save_dir = str(save_dir)
-        self.query_tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_dir + "/query_encoder")
-        self.passage_tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_dir + "/passage_encoder")
+        self.query_tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_dir + f"/{query_encoder_dir}")
+        self.passage_tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_dir + f"/{passage_encoder_dir}")
 
     @classmethod
     def load(cls,
@@ -343,6 +347,8 @@ class DensePassageRetriever(BaseRetriever):
              embed_title: bool = True,
              use_fast_tokenizers: bool = True,
              similarity_function: str = "dot_product",
+             query_encoder_dir: str = "query_encoder",
+             passage_encoder_dir: str = "passage_encoder"
              ):
         """
         Load DensePassageRetriever from the specified directory.
@@ -351,8 +357,8 @@ class DensePassageRetriever(BaseRetriever):
         load_dir = Path(load_dir)
         dpr = cls(
             document_store=document_store,
-            query_embedding_model=Path(load_dir) / "query_encoder",
-            passage_embedding_model=Path(load_dir) / "passage_encoder",
+            query_embedding_model=Path(load_dir) / query_encoder_dir,
+            passage_embedding_model=Path(load_dir) / passage_encoder_dir,
             max_seq_len_query=max_seq_len_query,
             max_seq_len_passage=max_seq_len_passage,
             use_gpu=use_gpu,