What is a big print to you? If you're like me growing up 8x10 seemed big.  Occasionally my parents would get an 11x14, or even 10x13 (Does anyone even make those anymore?).  Honestly, I didn't even know other sizes existed until I developed an interest in photography.  It's amazing what some inches can do to a print.  Let's also be frank about it, larger prints are more expensive....and there's a reason why professional photography is so expensive, and I'll get to that in another post.  I understand that not everyone can afford to get lots of huge portraits, and that it can be intimidating to see "investment" as the category name instead of "pricing", but investment is truly what it is.  These prints are portraits of your special people, sometimes they mark special events, so they should be considered special themselves....art pieces really.  I couldn't afford to have a session of my family done every year and then buy a thousand or more dollars worth of prints.  I get that big prints are usually purchased every few years (or more) or so usually.  So you may be wondering, as a photographer, do I have larger portraits in my home.  Yes.  A couple from our engagement session (one of which will hopefully this year be replaced with a family portrait), and we have a large one from my bridal session.  We have other large prints too, but they are some of our fine art pieces.  I'm hoping to get a larger print of Ada at a year old too.
Money aside, sometimes it's hard for us to think outside our standard....8x10 is just it.  When you see a print side by side--one small, one large--you can really grasp the awesomeness of the size difference, and how a print that really fills the space is far superior to an 8x10.  I've created a few examples to show you the difference in size, and even a few arrangements of prints as examples.  Yes, I used Ada's pictures for some of them...I couldn't resist.
The couch in the examples is 84 inches long...which is a decent average.  The pictures are to scale, and all are examples are of print wraps or gallery wraps, which do not require a frame.