My John is going to shave his goatee before the trip...maybe I should tell him to hold off until pirate night? Oh, but that is way past formal night.
My Jon will still have his. It doesn't grow very easy. We went on a 10 day vacation last summer so he decided to grow it and he barely had stubble and it was all patchy. Needless to say he looked really funny at work for a few weeks until it grew right. He'll probably be 80 and still have that thing!