First dance, father/daughter dance songs

I don't think your first dance song is too long and if you're worried about the song with your dad being too long, speak to your dj about editing it or looking for other mixes of the songs that are a bit shorter.

To be perfectly honest, most of the time when I go to weddings I either don't even notice that the first dances ARE going on as I am socializing at the table or with other guests OR if I'm super close to the bride and groom, I may watch part of it, but then go back to the table and start to chat so I wouldn't notice either way that it was a longer song

Agree with Maltese. Guests won't notice a minute extra here or there. Pick the songs that are special to you!

Doesn't seem too long. And you can definitely have guests come up and join you a minute or two into the song; I have seen that done and it was special.

Maybe the DJ can invite other fathers to dance with their daughters at the 2.5/3 minute mark. I've seen this done a couple of times. People like it because they are included and what dad doesn't jump at the chance to dance with his little girl?

Find a point in the song where it makes sense to fade out around the 3 min mark and have your DJ do that. 5 min is pretty long.

Talk to the DJ and have them do a fade out. My dance with my dad was about 2.5 minutes but we got the parts we wanted.

Our first dance song was about 5 minutes long but at about the 3 minute mark we invited all of our guests out to the floor.