Brides Throwing Cats

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Brides Throwing Cats is a single-topic Tumblr blog launched on October 5th, 2013 that features wedding photos edited so the bride tosses a cat into her guests instead of a bouquet. The account rode a week of October 2013 coverage from Jezebel, BuzzFeed, Time, and Mashable into wider internet awareness.

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Overview

Brides Throwing Cats is a single-topic Tumblr blog where wedding bouquet photos get edited so the bride is tossing a cat into the crowd instead of flowers1. Each image plays on the classic bouquet-toss shot, swapping florals for wide-eyed felines mid-flight2.

The blog fits into a small tradition of 'X replaced with cats' single-topic Tumblrs that started with Ryan Darrenkamp's Boozecats in July 2009 and grew with the April 2013 launch of Sports Balls Replaced With Cats5. Brides Throwing Cats moved the joke into wedding photography, and the awkward geometry of a cat frozen in the air over guests is what makes each post work6.

How It Spread

Coverage hit fast. On October 9th, 2013, Laughing Squid ran a roundup of favorites from the blog6, and Jezebel wrote it up the same day as a new wedding 'cativity' for readers to share2. Both posts pushed the account into feeds outside Tumblr and drove the first wave of reblogs.

The next day, October 10th, BuzzFeed published its own gallery of highlights7, Time Magazine's Newsfeed picked it as its Tumblr of the Week4, and The Daily Dot covered the trend as a standout single-topic account1. Getting on Time's Newsfeed in particular moved the blog from Tumblr-native humor into general internet awareness.

Mashable followed on October 11th with its own writeup, closing out that week of coverage8. That four-day run across viral aggregators, women's interest sites, a legacy magazine, and tech blogs was the account's high point of mainstream attention.

How to Use This Meme

The template is a two-layer photoshop: start with a real wedding bouquet-toss photo, then paste a cat over the bouquet so the pose reads like the bride is throwing the cat. People typically match the cat's lighting, angle, and motion blur to the original shot, and the funniest edits often use a cat whose flailing pose mirrors what the bouquet was doing6. Submissions get sent to the Tumblr for reposting rather than made through any specific tool1.

Frequently Asked Questions

Brides Throwing Cats

2013photoshop memeclassic

Brides Throwing Cats is a single-topic Tumblr blog launched on October 5th, 2013 that features wedding photos edited so the bride tosses a cat into her guests instead of a bouquet. The account rode a week of October 2013 coverage from Jezebel, BuzzFeed, Time, and Mashable into wider internet awareness.

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Overview

Brides Throwing Cats is a single-topic Tumblr blog where wedding bouquet photos get edited so the bride is tossing a cat into the crowd instead of flowers1. Each image plays on the classic bouquet-toss shot, swapping florals for wide-eyed felines mid-flight2.

The blog fits into a small tradition of 'X replaced with cats' single-topic Tumblrs that started with Ryan Darrenkamp's Boozecats in July 2009 and grew with the April 2013 launch of Sports Balls Replaced With Cats5. Brides Throwing Cats moved the joke into wedding photography, and the awkward geometry of a cat frozen in the air over guests is what makes each post work6.

How It Spread

Coverage hit fast. On October 9th, 2013, Laughing Squid ran a roundup of favorites from the blog6, and Jezebel wrote it up the same day as a new wedding 'cativity' for readers to share2. Both posts pushed the account into feeds outside Tumblr and drove the first wave of reblogs.

The next day, October 10th, BuzzFeed published its own gallery of highlights7, Time Magazine's Newsfeed picked it as its Tumblr of the Week4, and The Daily Dot covered the trend as a standout single-topic account1. Getting on Time's Newsfeed in particular moved the blog from Tumblr-native humor into general internet awareness.

Mashable followed on October 11th with its own writeup, closing out that week of coverage8. That four-day run across viral aggregators, women's interest sites, a legacy magazine, and tech blogs was the account's high point of mainstream attention.

How to Use This Meme

The template is a two-layer photoshop: start with a real wedding bouquet-toss photo, then paste a cat over the bouquet so the pose reads like the bride is throwing the cat. People typically match the cat's lighting, angle, and motion blur to the original shot, and the funniest edits often use a cat whose flailing pose mirrors what the bouquet was doing6. Submissions get sent to the Tumblr for reposting rather than made through any specific tool1.

Frequently Asked Questions