Littlest Hanson Getting Hitched

by Natalie Finn
Jun 2, 2006, 4:05 PM PT
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When did he MMMPop the question?

After five years together, Zac Hanson--another 20-year-old with a Best of album--and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kate Tucker, have made plans to tie the knot Saturday in Atlanta.

"The couple is planning an intimate ceremony with close family and friends," Katie McNeil, publicist for the band Hanson, told the Associated Press. We're guessing that he'll have two fellows performing the role of best man.

Zac is the youngest member of Hanson, the brotherly trio who hit it big in 1997 with the album Middle of Nowhere and the infectious little diddy "MMMBop."

The long-haired lads--Zac on drums, Taylor (now 23) on keyboard and lead vocals, and Isaac (now 25) on guitar--invoked a more grown-up rock sound on their next effort, 2000's This Time Around, but their core audience failed to grow with them, making the album far less successful than Middle, sales-wise. Critics dug it, though. Rolling Stone said that Hanson made "all other teen idols sound like Gerber-sucking clowns."

Not seeing eye to eye with Universal-owned Island Def Jam Records, Hanson left to form their own indie label, 3CG Records, through which they released Underneath in 2004. After hitting Carnegie Hall during a three-month tour in support of the album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart, Zac talked to People about young love.

About Tucker: "I will only say she is beautiful and amazing and I'm very lucky."

Enough said.

Although he's young by marrying standards, Zac is still playing catch-up with Taylor, who got hitched in 2002, when he was 18. He and his wife Natalie have two kids, Jordan Ezra, 3, and Penelope Anne, 1.

Hanson has been touring off and on for the last two years promoting The Best of Hanson: Live and Electric. A documentary about the making of Underneath called Strong Enough to Break is expected on DVD later this year.