The first day into another snap lockdown and Wodonga Café owner John Miseski is "nervous, frustrated and angry."

"We've had no cases here, we are 300 kilometres from Melbourne, yet we suffer the consequences and have no customers in our shop," Mr Miseski said.

To see businesses just across the border in New South Wales still being able to operate, he said, felt totally unfair, given that state's higher case numbers.

Despite owning his business on the Victorian side of the border, Mr Miseki lives in Albury, where everyday life for residents and businesses continues with limited restrictions.

"We travel through Albury to Wodonga and we see everyone still walking around, shopping and eating. We're very frustrated," he said.

He described Victoria's fifth lockdown as having a massive impact on his business.

Lucky timing

Amy and Justin Hoy of Mildura are feeling fortunate.

The couple — who were engaged in July, 2020 — had several contingency plans in case their wedding could not take place on July 10 this year.

They ended up with around 85 guests before the latest lockdown in regional Victoria began less than a week later.

Border issues were also a worry for the couple.

"My brother is up in Sydney and, so, he ended up in Canberra for a couple of weeks before the wedding so he could be a bit more certain that he could make it," she said.

"We had a groomsman in Perth, so he decided … that he'd come across because he was really worried about having to go home and quarantine for a couple of weeks.

The couple is now honeymooning in Darwin.

"We feel so lucky and we've been so supported by our friends and family. We've had a really great start," Ms Hoy said.

Field days cancelled

Late Thursday night, the committee of the Mallee Machinery Field Days in north-west Victoria decided to cancel its event after the latest lockdown news broke.

Secretary Andrew McLean is a farmer from Patchewollock, 140kms south of Mildura, and the secretary of the committee.

"We do have a lot of exhibitors coming from New South Wales, we also have a lot of public coming out of New South Wales," Mr McLean said.

"We had exhibitors cancelling already before last night."

"We don't know how this virus will [spread] in the next few weeks. It's certainly very transmissible and out there in the community."

The event in the town of Speed usually attracts thousands of farmers and hundreds of exhibitors from Victoria and interstate.

Organisers were forced to cancel the event last year because of the pandemic.

This year the site was all marked out and several working bees had been held to get the grounds ready. Machinery was due to begin arriving over the next week.

"We will run at a loss. We don't have sponsorship coming in that it covers the work we've already done."

The field day usually injects around $750,000 into the regional Victorian community each year.