I am an artist and graphic designer. Needless to say I spend a lot of time making lots of different color palletes.  If you are having trouble finding / creating a nice palette here are some tips:

- Think about the season and look for beautiful photographs from that season. (google it or go to the library) pull 4 or 5 colors from each photograph and play with them (try different combinations)

- Look though your favorite magazines / publications and look at the advertisements / layouts that you really find yourself attracted to.  pull a few colors from each one, and again, play around with different combinations with them

you can use a program like adobe photoshop or adobe illustrator to play with the different color swatches.

if you are not comfortable with these programs, you can buy a pantone color guide which will have swatches for almost every color. (google pantone color guide)

if you are super cheap (i prefer frugal =) go out to home depot with a print out or copy of the ads / photos you found and pull the samples cards from the paint section that are close to the colors you like.

Don't forget, the most important thing once you have the samples is to play with them! try all kinds of combinations!

Let me know if this is useful =) I have lots more ideas!

-Corvas

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Muse said:

Colour palette….I'm going with sapphire blue and rasberry red. Both are really strong colours though; I'm wondering whether they need toning down with the addition of maybe ivory or a weaker blue (periwinkle or powder blue). My dress is ivory. Thoughts?

Ooo, bold jewelry colors! If you like to have a third color to neutralize and tone it down a bit, I would go for metallic charcoal grey.