The chapel light, the white flowers, the couple walking side by side. I have wanted to make a wedding MV for a long time, and I have finally finished one. For this video, I returned to “Kimi ba Omou toyo,” a Hakata-dialect love song I posted a year ago, and gave it a new arrangement with help from DomoAI and ChatGPT Image.
Listen to the Wedding Rock version and read the lyrics on the Japanese song page
This is the main video, set to the new remix. The Wedding × Alternative Rock duet accompanies Ren and Sumire’s ceremony, with relatives from both families sharing the day. The song has a new musical character here, and I hope you enjoy seeing how its promise lands in the wedding scenes.
Returning to a song from a year ago
The original “Kimi ba Omou toyo” is a love song in Hakata dialect. One of its lines says, “From today on, let’s walk together.” That promise has always been at the heart of the song. It felt especially meaningful to return to it now and give it the setting of a wedding day.
This remix brings together Wedding, Alternative Rock and a male-female duet. Rather than simply illustrating the earlier version, I wanted to let the two voices pass the song between them and open it out into a day shared with family and friends. It was a chance to revisit the same song through both a new arrangement and a new set of images.
Suno v6 made fine adjustments to the music easier. The update came at just the right time: while I was working on this remix. I appreciated being able to make smaller edits as I worked toward the version I wanted.
You can also hear the original in the Official Audio released a year ago. I hope listening to the two versions side by side brings out how the same song can wear a different sound.
A wedding is more than the couple
The video features not only Ren and Sumire, the groom and bride, but also relatives from both families. As the cast grew, the AI sometimes mixed up who belonged to which side. A wedding is the couple’s day, but it is also a gathering of the families and people close to them. I wanted that to come through clearly in the scenes.
I put together reference sheets for the couple’s expressions, outfits and ceremony setting, then made another sheet to distinguish the Amano and Fujiwara families. Think of it as a kind of seating chart for the video: a visual guide to who is who, and how everyone belongs together. Referring back to those sheets helped reduce the family mix-ups and made it easier to keep the relationships in view while working on the scenes.
The references go beyond the wedding outfits. I also prepared separate sheets for the couple’s everyday clothes, expressions, belongings and daily routines. They gave me a way to check who Ren and Sumire are even as their clothes and surroundings change.
Even with reference sheets, not every generated scene came out exactly as intended. But having the people and their relationships laid out beforehand made it easier to notice what needed correcting. I used ChatGPT Image to develop the character and scene references, and DomoAI as part of bringing the imagery into motion. It felt good to finally take on the wedding MV I had wanted to make, with the tools and materials available to me now.
The same day with another sound
The second video is an alternate-music version of the one released the day before. It follows the same visual sequence, but a different track gives the wedding day another feel. If you have already watched the first version, listen for the change in mood; if this is your first, it is another way into the same celebration.
I finally turned an idea I had carried for a long time into an MV. Returning to last year’s song and giving it a wedding day—and a new sound—feels like seeing one of my long-held wishes take shape.
alternative rock君ば想うとよ (Wedding Rock Ver.)Open the song page for audio, lyrics, and notes.Explore this song →Thank you for reading.
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