If you have access to really dark skies with no light pollution... aperture is really helpful.
Your choice also really depends on where you are going to use the telescope.  Cities have a lot of light pollution so larger apertures don't help as much as you might think in a city (they do help).  If you have access to really dark skies with no light pollution... aperture is really helpful.  If you have access to dark skies, I would always recommend buying the most aperture you can: 1) carry and 2) afford.   Dark skies and larger apertures mean thousands and thousands of objects are easily visible (literally thousands of galaxies are visible in a 10" telescope in dark skies)