With shopkeepers and vegetable vendors across Mumbai threatening to shut shop again from Monday to protest the implementation of the Local Body Tax (LBT), families of those getting married this week are predictably tense. Harassed and worried citizens whose family members are tying the knot this month say the protests are making things difficult for them.

There are more than 5,000 weddings scheduled in May and the protests have affected those buying bulk vegetables, pulses, clothes or even gifts. Many who prefer shopping from Dadar and south Mumbai wholesale markets during weddings to take advantage of the affordable rates here, are now cursing LBT as well.